In this week's Friday Five, artist Hasani Sahlehe is a well-rounded creative who finds his drive in nature, art, music + more.

Hasani Sahlehe is a multifaceted artist who was born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands and now calls Atlanta, Georgia his home base. Using techniques from airbrush to poured acrylic gel that resembles thick resin, he manipulates color and medium to offer the viewer a moment of contemplation around recurring topics like memory, migration, and the otherworldly through the abstract. Hasani’s practice references other important aspects of his life as well ? music, spirituality, the history of painting, the natural world, and lived experiences ? to create his own visual language. In fact, he’s included a few of them below. One might say that Hasani’s inspiration can be distilled down to humanity as a whole, with the paint mimicking the relationships that can be found between us and the physical world, able to exist in various states just as we are, both tactile and intangible. Today, Hasani Sahlehe joins us for Friday Five!
Hasani Sahlehe \ Photo: Chia Chong, courtesy of SCAD
Cody Tumblin, “It Blooms Tomorrow”, 2017, dye and watercolor on dyed cotton, 16 x 20 inches. \ Photo courtesy of the artist and Good Enough
1. Cody Tumblin
Cody Tumblin is my favorite painter, his work is tender and refreshing. I?m also deeply impacted by his writing. Here?s his artist statement from his 2017 show, It Blooms Tomorrow, held at Good ...