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Artist: Quaishawn Whitlock
Artwork Title: Untitled
Year: 2024
Medium: Printmaking
Materials: Mixed media screenprint on canvas
Dimensions: 16” x 20”
Artist Bio:
Quaishawn Whitlock is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and business owner born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. His creative practice is rooted in storytelling, cultural memory, and printmaking as both a visual language and a tool for research and discovery. The process-driven nature of printmaking lends itself to experimentation and accessibility—qualities that extend into his curatorial and installation-based work. By using these frameworks, Whitlock explores the past, interrogates the present, and questions the trajectories shaping our future through an investigation called “Buffering,” which acts as a metaphor for the philosophical and psychological shaping of Black identity in a world where identities, communities, and people remain under constant attack. This project is both a visual meditation and a call to action: a way of examining how peer-to-peer storytelling can serve as a counter-archive, resisting erasure and fostering collective agency.
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Quaishawn Whitlock is a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, one of the oldest continuously operating artist member organizations in the United States. His work has been exhibited at the The Frick Pittsburgh, and he has contributed set design work for Amazon Studios, expanding his practice across both fine art and cinematic production.
Grounded in a multidisciplinary approach, Whitlock’s work is shaped by an ongoing engagement with narrative, research, and lived experience. As he notes, “This work continues to grow through research in American and international storytelling, as well as through the lived experience and perspectives of those I encounter. Whether in the studio, the classroom, or a public installation, my goal is to reignite the essence of storytelling—and to make visible the authority of those whose stories have long gone unseen.”
VIEW FULL IMAGE HERE.
Artist: Quaishawn Whitlock
Artwork Title: Untitled
Year: 2024
Medium: Printmaking
Materials: Mixed media screenprint on canvas
Dimensions: 16” x 20”
Artist Bio:
Quaishawn Whitlock is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and business owner born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. His creative practice is rooted in storytelling, cultural memory, and printmaking as both a visual language and a tool for research and discovery. The process-driven nature of printmaking lends itself to experimentation and accessibility—qualities that extend into his curatorial and installation-based work. By using these frameworks, Whitlock explores the past, interrogates the present, and questions the trajectories shaping our future through an investigation called “Buffering,” which acts as a metaphor for the philosophical and psychological shaping of Black identity in a world where identities, communities, and people remain under constant attack. This project is both a visual meditation and a call to action: a way of examining how peer-to-peer storytelling can serve as a counter-archive, resisting erasure and fostering collective agency.
Note:
Quaishawn Whitlock is a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, one of the oldest continuously operating artist member organizations in the United States. His work has been exhibited at the The Frick Pittsburgh, and he has contributed set design work for Amazon Studios, expanding his practice across both fine art and cinematic production.
Grounded in a multidisciplinary approach, Whitlock’s work is shaped by an ongoing engagement with narrative, research, and lived experience. As he notes, “This work continues to grow through research in American and international storytelling, as well as through the lived experience and perspectives of those I encounter. Whether in the studio, the classroom, or a public installation, my goal is to reignite the essence of storytelling—and to make visible the authority of those whose stories have long gone unseen.”
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