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Onil is that rare visual artist who has actually working the field of Comic Books & Graphic Novels along with Fine Art and Illustration. Plenty of major Visual Artists claim comix or cartoons as source material or inspiration yet they have never worked in those fields. Often their venture into comics is brazen appropriation or worst.
Onli is unique in this. Sort of like the masters of music who can perform or compose in Pop, Classical, Jazz and Electronica. Versatility in full effect!
These four unique acclaimed collections are ready to be presented in major galleries or museums. Each body of Rhythmistic Art is ready for the gaze of the astute curator or intelligently well resources collector.
Proven in both worlds of visual expression and communication.
Though the good folks in the flows of the trending "Afrofuturism" tend not to address Rhythmism which was launched in the 1970s as a Future-Primitif approach to not only the Visual Arts but life, we give a little luv to them.
We see Afrofuturism as a welcome portal to understand what Rhythmism had been doing before, now & since!
More than another case of overlooking the innovative accomplishment of a Hetero Black Man.
Onli, the Visual Artist/Arts Educator/Art Therapist who came of age through both the Hippie infused Counter Cultural Revolution & the success of the Black Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, threw down Rhythmism in the 1970s,,,,,,,and folks ignored it. Dery, a cultural critic, offers the term Afrofuturism in the 1990s and folks luv it. How Black and forward thinking was that move?
Welcome to the evolution!
