Jada Fire as Osun

(2008) Mixed Media: African cloth, sequins, feathers, acrylic, collage, spray paint, oil sticks, mirror, braids & embellishment on canvas Dimensions: 3 x 2.25 feet 
Copyright © by Karen Miranda Augustine

Karen Miranda Augustine is a Torono-based mixed-media, photographic, and video based artist concerned with the subject of self-possession. Drawing from African, South American, and Oceanic indigenous rituals and Catholicism, she creates bright, bold, and in your face collages. She states, “My artwork is a clutter of ritualistic and pop culture imagery, which explores spiritualism, the feminine, and adversity as a rite of passage”. Augustine presents fragmented representations of history in a satirical manner in order to reclaim her “public sense of self”.  

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Annah, Get Your Gun

(2004) Mixed Media: Acrylic, photo transfer, photocopy & stuffed monkey on canvas 
Dimensions: 3 x 4 feet Copyright © by Karen Miranda Augustine

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