Artist Biography

Raevenne S. Zackery, an Illinois-based painter, has developed her two-dimensional fine art skills over several years. Raevenne works with oil paint, acrylic aerosol, oil pastel, and pencil. Her style is abstract, creating dimensions within biological urban subject matter. Using techniques of stenciling, applying thick layers of paint, and airbrushing, with urban elements of Black American graffiti culture in the background, giving appreciation and inspiration in nature. She earned an A.A., B.F.A., and M.F.A.; holds an M.A. Certificate of Study in Art History; is a Certified Diamantologist; and is an established Practitioner of Educational Leadership within the current PhD and EdD pathway. Raevenne has an extensive array of exhibitions in art galleries and continuous community art events, as well as published works and curatorial work, both nationally and internationally.

Depicting the complexity of how growth and development create the explorations in life that are given, can only evolve with time. The works of art shown push the psychological explorations of the emotional connection to the cycle of life. Through nature's perspective, it connects to human evolution and the existence of life itself. The cultural blend of urban graffiti with biological elements creates themes of Euphoria, highlighting how we perceive lucid dreams in the world. Linking emotion and growth, this world offers us realms of escape in the mind. The forms created are ideals of abstraction, representing biological and social worlds.