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byron
linnell
edwards
oil, pastel, and fiber. race, identity, and black masculinity through abstraction and figuration. i came to painting through burnout — after fifteen years in entertainment, i started making art as a way back to my own story.
Selected Works
The Minstrel Show
Nine paintings tracing coon caricature from the 1800s through contemporary media. Solo exhibition, Los Angeles, 2021.
For Ahmaud
Both memorial and indictment. Layers of fractured color insist on the fullness of Black life in the face of racial violence.
The Blues
Three portraits — Depression, In Dire Distress, and Despair. Refusing to let that grief stay invisible.
Works on Paper
Intimate works in oil and pastel on paper — studies in stillness, solitude, and abstracted form. 2022–2025.
Canvas & Wood
Large-scale paintings on canvas and wood panel. Works held in private and corporate collections across the U.S.
Let's Work.
Commissions, exhibitions, collections, collaborations, licensing, and Wellness programming — all inquiries welcome.
Art that holds
what words can't.