Alanna Airtram’s subjects emerge out of darkness, illuminated by light evoking Dutch Golden Age paintings. Flowers add their opulence — and another layer of buried histories—to her work. She uses them lavishly in crowning, framing and celebrating Black beauty and identity. Her flowers brim with life. The still life traditions Airitam references reached their artistic

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