Their subject matter includes all of the
traditional categories
within Western Art:
figurative, landscape, portraiture, indoor and outdoor genre and still life
paintings.
She creates a personal and contemporary fiction
within her works, bringing to light issues of race and representation throughout the history of
traditional figurative painting: «My work is a form of tribute, analysis and intervention: tribute out of sincere admiration for the
figurative tradition; analysis, by making something vast,» the role of race in the history of
figurative painting «comprehensible to both myself and to my viewers; and intervention, by positioning a woman - of - color as primary picture - maker, in whose hands the
figurative tradition is refashioned.»