Free shipping on all online orders

Framed Gallery

Welcome to Framed Gallery, a vibrant space dedicated to celebrating the rich and diverse artistic contributions of African and African American artists. Our gallery serves as a cultural hub, showcasing a wide array of artworks that reflect the African and African American art experience, history, and identity. Framed Gallery is more than just an exhibition space; it is a place of learning, inspiration, and connection. Join us in celebrating the vibrant legacy and ongoing evolution of African and African American art.

Artists

Ademola Adeshina

Ademola Adeshina is a Nigerian artist originally trained as a textile designer in the famous Yaba College of Technology, in Lagos. Finding his feet in the world of creativity with his mind full of unending...
Beatrice Lebreton

Inspired by the African Diaspora, Béatrice Lebreton sources her multicultural heritage and current events as she creates work that encourages the viewer’s engagement and interpretation. Working...
Buchi Upjohn

Truly an artist at heart, Upjohn began his natural interest in drawing and painting at a very young age. A native of West Africa, at the age of fifteen, Upjohn started working on his degree program. He...
Bunisha "Toni" Dahn

Bunisha "Toni" Dahn is a Liberian self-taught mixed media and abstract artist from Youngstown, Ohio. Bunisha’s passion for art was cultivated when she was diagnosed with major depression disorder,...
Carolyn Crump
Cedric Michael Cox

Cedric Michael Cox is best known for his paintings and drawings that merge surrealism and representational abstraction. As a student at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture,...
Charly Palmer

Charly Palmer was born in 1960 in Fayette, Alabama and raised in Milwaukee. He relocated to Chicago to study Art and Design at American Academy of Art and School of the Art Institute. As a graphic designer...
Chukes

Life is like sculpture and painting. We are born. Our parents shape and mold us then set us free. The cycle never stops. We are in a constant state of creation. We never die. We are just planted back into...
David Buttram

The inner city, with all the urban mystifications, is the backdrop of the artistic works and paintings of David Buttram. Inspired by the iconic masters of yesteryear, including Van Gough, Rembrandt, O’Tanner...
Gerald Griffin

I want to present an open-sided view of the consequences of American life, both to criticize and find beauty. Ideas about portraiture and identity have continued to influence the evolution of my work....
Hampton R. Olfus

Hampton R. Olfus, Jr. a Washington, D.C. native creates works of art that are influenced by many artistic styles. Olfus works in a variety of media. He studied art at Prince George's Community College,...
Honey Pierre

Honey Pierre is more than a black girl painting. She is the embodiment of a dreamer making
markers for everyone to view. As an emerging artist, her ritual come from a spiritual place using
organic...
Ibou Ndoye

Glass-painting artist Ibou Ibrahima Ndoye has combined modernism and traditionalism to create a style unique to himself. Ibrahima, commonly known as "Ibou," as a young child, was regularly surrounded by...
Joana Taya

Working across diverse media, including painting, collage, computer design, photography, and animation, Angolan native Joana Taya is preoccupied with female identity, particularly the social position of...
Michael Escoffery

Artists are born with their talents intact. Nurturing exposure to appropriate environments and early training are not quite as certain. Born in Jamaica, Michael Escoffery had the good fortune to be the...
Michael Gibson

“I try to push the limits of realism in the graphite medium; simply imitating reality isn’t my primary goal. In fact it’s not about how much detail you choose to put in a piece, it’s...
Olisa Nwadiogbu

Olisa is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, bronze caster and cultural activist. As a multi-media artist; drawing and painting of figures and abstracts provide the basis of his artistic adventures and career....
Oluwasanmi Adesiyan

Oluwasanmi Adesiyan is a self-taught figurative artist from Ekiti State, Nigeria. He is a graduate
of the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife,Nigeria where he studied Food Science and
Technology....
Rahamel Hughes

Rahamel Hughes, known affectionately as Rah, is a remarkable fiber artist renowned for her captivating mixed media art pieces. With an unwavering dedication to upcycling and a deep appreciation for denim,...
Taabu Munyoki

Taabu Munyoki's, art evokes a personal emotion. That is especially what she desires to receive from her viewers as well. Combining elements from her background in graphic design and painting, Munyoki creates...
Terry Lynn

For over a decade, Terry Lynn employs figurative painting with spirited gestures and textural layers of imagery to narrate his family’s history in the South. More recently, he has developed his individual...
Vincent Keele

“When I create a painting, I want to create environment that draws upon deep emotions, fills the soul, and places the viewer in the painting,” say Vincent Keele, a second-generation expressionist...
Willie Brooks

Willie J. Brooks, Jr. began capturing beautiful things in an artistic way at a very young age. Born
in 1985, and reared in Greenville, Ala., Brooks, has been drawing and painting since the early
age....

View All Artists »

Connect With Us

Join our mailing list to receive latest news and updates about events, artists and exhibitions.

Submitting

* Required

First Name

Last Name

*E-Mail Address