Kareem-Anthony Ferreira

With a long-standing interest in art, Ayesha Selden took a deep dive into collecting after building a new home in LA during the pandemic. Since buying her first artwork in 2021, she has acquired close to 90 works -- including work by Kareem-Anthony Ferreira -- amassing a robust collection of contemporary, historic, and international artists while weaving herself into a growing community of dedicated Black art collectors. Selden has no plans to stop; here, she shares the intentions behind her collection, the work she's doing with other locals, and what she's looking to add next.

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“Being singled out and oppressed for being Black, I tried to toe the line,” Roger, 61, said. With just a few savings, Roger and his wife, Cathy, came to Canada from Trinidad and Tobago in 1988. Roger Ferreira is local painter focused on education as he explores Hamilton's heritage, bringing his Caribbean and Trinidad heritage to his work. Ferreira is part of a joint exhibit at AGH with his son Kareem-Anthony Ferreira.

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Kareem-Anthony Ferreira’s painting now hangs in the Los Angeles Lakers’ basketball star dining room. The former McMaster football player hit the pages of the latest Vanity Fair with his large scale “Dinner At Auntie Nicole’s House” shown in the background with LeBron James’ family seated at the table. Representing his Trinidadian roots, Ferreira’s paintings are relatable, with representations of family, like gatherings in the kitchen, Sunday lunches and the feeling of community.

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LeBron James and Savannah Brinson met in 2002, when they were students at nearby high schools in Ohio and just as LeBron became a national phenomenon. The promise of his early expectations was staggering, but he went on to outstrip it. At 37, he’s not so much an elder statesman of the NBA as he is the engine of its contemporary business, politics, and presentation. He’s also vocal about being a family man. He and Savannah married in 2013, and they have three children, Bronny, Bryce, and Zhuri.

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Nino Mier Gallery, which was founded in Los Angeles in 2015 and has quickly been growing over the past seven years, will soon add a location in New York. Opening next January, the space will be inaugurated with a solo show of German artist Jana Schröder, who has been with the gallery since its earliest days. The New York location, located in SoHo, on Crosby Street between Spring and Broome streets, will be designed by Markus Dochantschi of StudioMDA and led by Margaret Zuckerman, who has been a director at the gallery since 2018.

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Though they may sit dusty on the shelf in Mom and Dad’s rec room or live boxed in a corner of the basement, our family photo albums make sacred texts. Those four-by-sixes remembering summer vacations and holiday get-togethers long ago, the Polaroids of picnics and birthday parties: they tell important stories about who we are and where we’ve come from. Recorded in ancient photo chemicals, these moments and memories are the stuff identity is made of.

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Kareem-Anthony Ferreira, a first-generation Canadian, completed his BFA at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in 2012 and his MFA at the University of Arizona in 2020. Using a combination of painting and collage, Ferreira builds richly textured surfaces upon large-scale unstretched canvases, depicting intimate scenes that negotiate his Canadian and Trinidadian heritage.

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A selection of paintings by artist Kareem-Anthony Ferreira. First generation Canadian with strong Trinidadian roots, Ferreira’s work incorporates black portraiture, non-indigenous patterning and mixed media collage to explore themes of cultural divergence and the sense of being rooted in multiple places at the same time. In tracing patterns of identity — be it personal, familial or social — Ferreira aims to challenge overly simplistic perceptions by offering compositions that allow disparate communities, traits, and identities to coexist.

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