• URUBA SLAUGHTER

    @abstractslover

    abstractslover.com

     

    Born in New York City and currently residing between St. Louis, MO, and Atlanta Ga.  Uruba is a professional artist whose focus is abstractions . Her use of custom textures and acrylic colors enable her to portray visions with commanding depth. 

    Uruba’s passion for becoming an artist was put on hold for over 20 years as she was completely engrossed with her role as wife and mother of four. 

    Now with an empty nest she has found the time and attention to focus her spirit ,energy and focus into her creative works. 

    In 2013 she was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. She found that her uses of receptive meditation and reflection, allowed her to accurately reflect her emotions, experience and power to flow through colors, texture, and meaning that flow onto the canvas. 

    This process was therapeutic and by December 2018 she had painted that aneurysm away, which was to the awe and surprise of her Physicians. 

    In that time Uruba has amassed a catalog of original masterpieces that can never be duplicated, her art is not about defined patterns it is purely from the inside out! Each work is created with colors, texture and acrylic created by her personally developed sponging technique, none of her pieces follow a defined plan or pattern.

  • 'Uruba Slaughter’s captivating abstract paintings remind viewers of the important role Black artists play in the field of abstraction. Slaughter’s...
    "Uruba Slaughter’s captivating abstract paintings remind viewers of the important role Black artists play in the field of abstraction. Slaughter’s works are characterized by rich colors and textures which resemble natural elements like stone. Her use of the rough surface is informed by her experience overcoming a serious health issue, thanks to her artistic practice. This element serves as a metaphor for several contrasts explored throughout Slaughter’s work, such as life/death and pain/beauty"
    7 Contemporary Black Women Painters To Watch - Essence, Daria Simone Harper
  • 'When figures aren’t enough and there are no words to heal the suffering, abstraction is used in its place. Uruba...

    "When figures aren’t enough and there are no words to heal the suffering, abstraction is used in its place. Uruba Slaughter surpassed an aneurysm through abstract painting. Her custom textures depict the suffering of one in pain but who is willing to overcome humanity’s suffering in order to see beauty. The colorful and contrasted canvases she creates depict the darkness to light the artist has endured.

     

    Black art in  America -'10 Breakthrough Women Artists As Polled By Black-Owned Art Galleries', Shantay Robinson