✨ JULY 17–18, 2026 · NYC ✨
🌿 GARDEN OF THE 9 MUSES 🌿 2 day Solo Exhibition
Mythology. Lineage. Transformation.
This July, step into a world where mythology, lineage, beauty, storytelling, and transformation intertwine. Garden of the 9 Muses is an immersive contemporary art exhibition reimagining the Nine Muses through bold oil portraiture on reclaimed wood, layered symbolism, sculptural hair design, and Afro-Realist storytelling.
Each Muse becomes a living archive — embodying creativity, memory, survival, culture, and the unseen connections carried through generations. Through textured surfaces, vibrant color palettes, and immersive installation elements, this exhibition invites you to move beyond simply viewing art… and into experiencing it.
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🌙 FRIDAY, JULY 17 — OPENING NIGHT Full exhibition unveiling · VIP preview hour · Artist talk · live DJ · curated experiences
🎨 SATURDAY, JULY 18 — IMMERSIVE DAY: Deep Dive art work break down · “Muse Energy Painting Session”: you take your own Muse-inspired artwork home (limited spots)
Guest will have access to the evolving weekend interactive installation through the exhibition.
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🎟 TICKETS: → Friday Opening Night → Saturday Immersive Experience → Weekend Pass — Fri + Sat (best value) → VIP / Curator / Press — limited
🔗 Link in bio · Secure your ticket to Enter the Garden and explore.
Comment 🌿 if your ready to step into the GARDEN OF 9 MUSES 💭
#OilPainting #BlackArtist #ContemporaryArt #AfrocentricKeyy #brooklynexhibition
Your thoughts deserve a home that feels intentional. This is more than a notebook, these journals are spaces for vision-building, reflection, and everyday creativity—designed for dreamers, doers, and creators writing themselves into alignment.
From quiet moments of healing to bold ideas waiting to be born, every page holds possibility. Whether you’re planning your next chapter, journaling through growth, or sketching what’s to come, this is where it begins.
Limited quantities are available, and restocks are not guaranteed.
Tap the LINK IN BIO to shop what’s currently in stock before they’re gone. ✨📓
What do you think spreads faster: truth or repetition? 🙊
“Speak No… But the Parrot Repeats” 🦜
A contemporary Afrocentric reimagining of the “speak no evil” motif — exploring the fragile line between silence, truth, and exposure.
Adorned with Bantu knots, the figure gently covers her mouth as an act of restraint, protection, and vulnerability. But perched beside her, the parrot becomes the voice that refuses to stay quiet. A symbol of repetition and amplification, it echoes what was never meant to leave the body — releasing narratives into the world without filter, permission, or control.
Because once words are spoken… or even implied… they evolve. Repeated by others. Reshaped by perspective. Consumed by the masses whether true or not.
This piece questions:
Who owns a story once it leaves us?
And can silence ever truly protect us from exposure?
Part of “The Three Gates” — a series reinterpreting the “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” proverb through themes of perception, truth, vulnerability, and revelation.
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#AfrocentricKeyy #BlackContemporaryArt #AfroRealism #SpeakNoEvil #ContemporaryPortraiture
From the studio to the storefront ✨
My work will be on display at Iris Lingerie as part of this year’s Atlantic Ave Art Walk ( @atlanticaveartwalk ) from May 9–17! 🎨🖤
Known for its thoughtfully curated lingerie, elevated essentials, and intimate boutique experience, Iris Lingerie ( @irislingeriebk ) has become a beautiful staple along Atlantic Ave — celebrating confidence, femininity, and intentional style through every piece carried in the shop. I’m honored to have my work featured within their storefront this year.
If you’re in Brooklyn, make sure to stop by, experience the installation in person, and scan the QR code in the window to stay connected with all things Afrocentric Keyy — upcoming exhibitions, new artwork, events, and more.
Huge thank you to Atlantic Avenue Local Development Corporation and Iris Lingerie for selecting me to participate in this year’s art walk and for continuing to create space for artists within the community. ✨
Come take a walk down Atlantic Ave, support local businesses, and experience art woven throughout the neighborhood.
#AfrocentricKeyy #AtlanticAveArtWalk #BrooklynArtist #NYCArt #BrooklynArt
Dear young artist… this is for you.
A moment from my “In Her Image” Artist Talk—speaking directly to the version of me who was still searching, still questioning, still wondering “am I on the right path?”
Because the truth is… I was.
Even in the uncertainty.
I didn’t always see spaces that felt aligned.
I didn’t always see opportunities that felt fruitful or accessible.
So I made a decision:
✨ If the space doesn’t exist—create it.
✨ If the door doesn’t open—build your own.
✨ If the path feels unclear—keep walking anyway.
To every artist still figuring it out:
Your journey isn’t behind—it’s unfolding.
Keep creating.
Keep pushing.
Keep protecting your creative freedom at all costs.
Because every goal you reach?
There’s another one waiting for you on the other side.
And that’s the beauty of it… you never stop becoming.
💭 What would you tell your younger artist self right now?
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🎥: @oneofarose
📍 @poise.bk
#DearYoungArtist #ArtistTalk #AfrocentricKeyy #BlackArtists #CreativeJourney
In my artist talk for “In Her Image”, @theartiste_ asked me a great question around challenging myself. I answered with one of the most freeing reframes of my creative life:
I no longer use the word challenge.
Instead — I allow myself.
I allow myself to grow into new perspectives.
I allow myself to move toward what feels expansive.
I allow myself to release the tension that comes with “pushing” — and just open.
There’s a difference between bracing yourself for impact and blossoming into what’s next. One feels like survival. The other feels like *becoming.*
This is the energy I pour into every portrait on reclaimed wood. Not conquest — communion. With the subject. With the surface. With myself.
✦ *In Her Image* captured that energy. And now I’m carrying it forward.
🎥 Artist talk footage: @oneofarose
📍 @poise.bk
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#InHerImage #ArtistTalk #ContemporaryArt #AfroRealism #afrocentrickeyy
“See No… but the butterflies expose” 🦋
A reimagining of the proverb tied to the Three Wise Monkeys — “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”
But what happens when what we’re not seeing… isn’t by our own choice?
In this piece, the figure’s eyes aren’t covered by their own hands—but by someone else’s.
A gesture rooted in protection. In preserving innocence. In shielding from what may feel too heavy, too soon.
But protection can blur into control.
And curiosity—the natural pull to understand, to witness, to know—doesn’t disappear.
The butterflies move through that tension freely.
They represent life, transformation, and possibility…
but also death, exposure, and the fleeting nature of truth.
They don’t ask for permission to be seen.
They arrive anyway.
Even when vision is blocked, truth finds another way in—soft, quiet, but undeniable.
This work sits in that space between protection and revelation.
Between what is hidden for us… and what we inevitably uncover for ourselves.
What was once kept from you… that you had to find on your own? 🦋
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🦋 Part I of III — The Three Gates | A reimagination of See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil
#TheThreeGates #SeeNoEvil #ButterfliesExpose #ContemporaryAfroRealism #oilpainting
“See No… but the butterflies expose” 🦋
What we refuse to see doesn’t disappear—it evolves.
This timelapse captures the full painting process of the first gate in my series “The Three Gates”—a personal reimagining of the proverb tied to the Three Wise Monkeys.
The hands covering the face aren’t just about blindness—they represent protection. The instinct to shield ourselves from truths that feel too heavy, too uncomfortable, or too complex to process in the moment. But protection and avoidance often live closer than we think.
The butterflies move through that barrier freely.
They symbolize transformation, beauty, and rebirth…
but also fragility, illusion, and the quiet nature of truth.
Because even when we choose not to see—
truth still finds a way to land.
Soft. Unannounced. Unavoidable.
This piece lives in that tension between what we hide from and what continues to reveal itself anyway.
What are you protecting yourself from seeing right now? 🦋
The Artist Talk” with the amazing @afrocentrickeyy ✨
These are the moments that stick. Connecting with the creator and gaining a deeper understanding of the work.
📍 @poise.bk
🎥 @afrocentrickeyy
#eventcontentcreator #contentcreater #eventcontentcreators #contentcreatornyc #contentcreatorbrooklyn
“My practice transforms discarded materials into vibrant narratives that explore lineage, identity, and cultural memory. Rooted in eco-conscious storytelling, my work blends symbolism, color, and historical references to honor the past while imagining new futures.”- @afrocentrickeyy ✨
Afrocentric Keyy (Kiarra Elliott) is a Brooklyn-based visual artist creating portraiture in oil on reclaimed wood. Trained in Southern California and holding a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Arts (2013), she developed her practice around a foundational question: Where are the images of people who look like us?
Afrocentric Keyy’s paintings center Black figures from the African, African American, and Caribbean diaspora in states of divinity, introspection, and power. She works exclusively on salvaged wood panels—weathered, discarded, overlooked—transforming remnants into reverence.
Her signature style, Contemporary Afro-Realism Portraiture, fuses classical technique with a bold, symbolism-laden palette inspired by thermal imaging and the unseen spectrum beneath the skin.
Afrocentric Keyy’s work will be on display at @irislingeriebk , 323 Atlantic Avenue, starting May 9th. You can visit afrocentrickeyy.com to view more of her portfolio.
#atlanticaveartwalk #portraits #brooklynart #brooklynartist
“See No… but the butterflies expose” - (Foundation layers )
What we refuse to see doesn’t disappear—it evolves.
The first in my “The Three Gates” series confronts perception and denial. The figure resists sight, yet transformation moves freely around them—uninvited, undeniable.
This is my reinterpretation of - “See no evil”
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A personal reimagining of the proverb tied to the Three Wise Monkeys — “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”
But what happens when silence is no longer protection?
The Three Gates explores perception, truth, and exposure—what we choose not to see, hear, or say, and how it still finds its way to the surface.
#afrocentrickeyy #oilpaintonwood #afrorealism #contemparyart
FLUIDITY
She didn’t hold on. She let the water decide.
The softness in this piece arrived on its own — the way the koi drift through her space, unhurried and weightless. They don’t interrupt her. They complete her.
🐟 Koi carry meaning older than most words we have for peace — transformation, resilience, the quiet power of flowing with life rather than against it. Here they move through her world as if they’ve always belonged there. As if she has always known how to be still inside the movement.
That wide, breathing space around her was everything. Because sometimes the most powerful thing art can hold is room — to exhale, release, and simply let things be. 🌊
This one is for anyone who needed permission to soften today.
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💬 What are you releasing this season? Drop it below and leave it here. 👇🤍
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#afrocentrickeyy #koifish #contemparyart #afrorealism #oilpaint
