#ArtistOfTheDay Naomi Lisiki 🗽✌🏻️will be exhibiting her work with us at our upcoming event with @theartcreators Jan 8th @coworkrs Gowanus! Bio Naomi Lisiki was born on May 29 1997 in Guadeloupe, a French island in the Caribbean. Before coming to the United States, she did not perceive art as a major part of her life. She came to America when she was 13 years old and went to a French-American Private School for 2 years. Following that, she attended Grover Cleveland High School, in Queens, for 2 years, and graduated a year early to finally attend College. She attended the HS2AS program in Queens, when she was 16 years old. She applied and got accepted into The Cooper Union when she was 17 years old. Now, she is a second year Art student at The Cooper Union. As a child, she really enjoyed daydreaming, as she would take naps and play on the grass, in the garden behind her house or at the beach. According to her, these moments as a child are what influenced both her and the art that she produces today. Her work mostly deals with the unconscious and the super natural. When working, she thinks a lot about corals, and about the sea, which she considers as a second mother. With her work, she is not only setting up a spectacle, but also a visual matching of fragments of memories from her childhood in the Caribbean. Her drawings are in the realm of psychology, through the joyful investigation of “childishness”, using mixed materials to produce texture. She uses crayons, paint and sand particles that she spray paints and mixes with dust. Her work is about body contact, “communal consumption” but also about the idea of “losing control”. It is about the “controlling hand” or the matured individual, verses immoral and pubescent entities or tendencies. She tries to represent an almost platonic or neutral environment, where sexuality may never happen, while still involving nude bodies. Through the investigation of the “Spectacle”, she engages and represents bodies that might experience abuse, death or the degradation of their own body. Her work mostly deals with the idea of what “naiveté” is and childhood trauma. She likes to think of how she can use colors and form to represent uncomfortableness, but also pleasure. @TheArtCreators collective along with Sticker Social Club present BAIT 2 at @coworkrs in #Gowanus! #CCBait 2 #NaomiLisiki #StickerSocialClub is happy to be curating the art Jan 8th at the new #Community #WorkSpace Studio in #Brooklyn by#coworkrs Don’t miss the #ArtOpening and Live #PerformanceArt collaboration between choreographer @julrose17 and music composer @bittersuiteuk! Live drawing and #DrawingTable$10 tix available and comes with complimentary drinks! #FreeBeer! @TheArtCreators collective along with Sticker Social Club present BAIT 2 at @coworkrs in #Gowanus! #CCBait 2 #NaomiLisiki #StickerSocialClub is happy to be curating the art Jan 8th at the new #Community #WorkSpace Studio in #Brooklyn by#coworkrs Don’t miss the #ArtOpening and Live #PerformanceArt collaboration between choreographer @julrose17 and music composer @bittersuiteuk! Live drawing and #DrawingTable$10 tix available and comes with complimentary drinks! #FreeBeer!