Title: Cool Face • Medium:Multi-Media • Materials: Acrylic Paint. On Wood • Size/Dimensions: 36x32 • Year Created: 2023 This striking portrait by Voodo Fé, painted on wood, is a bold meditation on identity, emotion, and expression. The face—fragmented, abstracted, yet deeply human—emerges from a blackened void, its features carved out through powerful contrasts and textured layers of color. The eyes command attention first: wide, intense, and alert, framed by thick blocks of shadow and streaks of color that drip downward like emotional residue. Above and around them, a mosaic of vibrant strokes—reds, greens, blues, oranges—creates a chaotic yet intentional tapestry across the forehead and cheeks. These brushstrokes feel like coded language: culture, memory, and experience rendered as color. The mouth, set in cool tones of white and slate blue, is quiet but heavy with presence. Long white drips fall from the mouth and eyes, giving the piece a weeping effect—like paint that mourns, or truths that bleed slowly over time. These vertical streaks pull the composition downward, suggesting weight, struggle, or release. Painted on wood, the piece feels anchored in reality—its textured base lending an earthy quality that contrasts with the intensity of the abstract face. The grain peeks through in subtle ways, grounding the otherwise floating image and connecting it to something raw, rooted, and real. Voodo Fé balances emotion and abstraction with precision, using color and contrast not just for aesthetic power, but as narrative tools. This is a face both seen and felt—built from fragments, yet full of wholeness. A portrait of the inner world, rendered in strokes that cry, shout, and remember.
Title: Corn • Medium:Multi-Media • Materials: Paper, Acrylic Paint. On Wood • Size/Dimensions: 84x48 This portrait by Voodo Fé is a powerful mixed-media composition that speaks with quiet strength and textured intensity. Set against a pale green backdrop, the profile of a young figure emerges with sculptural clarity—crafted from layered collage, paint, and tangled threads that animate the silhouette like sparks of thought or energy. The hair, rendered in dense black with raw, almost electric linework, is alive with motion. Embedded within it are fragments of paper and fabric—bits of texture and story—that give the form depth and history. These pieces are not decorative; they’re embedded memory, revealing the complexity within the figure’s quiet gaze. The neck, painted in a striking solid orange, acts as both anchor and contrast—bold and unapologetic. It breaks the palette intentionally, offering balance to the otherwise organic tones of earth, ink, and paper. There’s something symbolic in this use of color: a kind of grounded power or luminous defiance. Voodo Fé's hand is unmistakable in the way texture and gesture fuse. The piece doesn’t shout—it hums with presence. It invites contemplation, honoring identity not just as something seen, but something layered, lived, and still unfolding.
Title: Couture • Medium: Multi-Media • Materials: Paper, Acrylic Paint. On Wood • Size/Dimensions: 36x32 This piece by Voodo Fé, created on wood, is a striking interplay of silhouette and pattern, concealment and revelation. A commanding black form fills the composition—a stylized profile rendered in dense, almost sculptural paint. The figure’s features are hinted at through small, deliberate highlights: a glint of an eye, the curve of lips, a cheekbone catching light. The rest is shadow, heavy and intentional. What surrounds this silhouette is equally compelling: a vivid floral pattern that peeks through the edges, bursting in color and texture against the muted aqua background. The flowers feel vintage, tactile, and full of life—a nod, perhaps, to culture, memory, or personal history. Their presence against the solid black form suggests something deeper: an inner world brimming just beneath the surface, waiting to be seen. The composition is clean yet layered, elegant but complex. Voodo Fé uses contrast not just visually, yet emotionally—drawing us into the quiet power of identity held in form, in absence, in the echo of pattern against presence. It’s a meditation on beauty, dignity, and the stories that reside in silence.
Title: Henry • Medium: Multi-Media • Materials: Paper, Acrylic Paint. On Wood • Size/Dimensions: 36x32 In this evocative portrait by Voodo Fé, a striking silhouette commands the canvas—richly textured, rendered in deep black paint that feels almost sculptural in its density. The figure’s features emerge only in highlights: the brow, nose, lips, and chin catch fragments of white light, suggesting presence through the subtlest contrast. The backdrop—a lush, layered collage of cool-toned florals and botanical elements— adds a sense of calm and quiet complexity. Blues, lavenders, and warm pops of orange form a visual field that’s both decorative and symbolic. The juxtaposition of a near- anonymous figure against this vivid botanical tapestry offers a compelling tension between concealment and expression. Fé’s technique fuses bold minimalism with intricate texture, blending the tactile with the emotional. The result is a meditative composition that speaks to memory, resilience, and inner life. The red blocks and fragments of text integrated into the background hint at language, history, or identity, adding to the layered storytelling that defines so much of Voodo Fé’s work.
Title: Love Wino • Medium: Multi-Media • Materials: Paper, Wine cork, Acrylic Paint. On Wood • Size/Dimensions: 33x42 This deeply personal piece by Voodo Fé, created on wood, takes the shape of a heart built entirely from wine corks—each one a silent relic of the artist’s past. It’s a raw and redemptive sculpture layered with meaning. The corks, once part of a chapter filled with struggle and dependency, are now transformed into a bold symbol of healing, vulnerability, and reclaimed self-love. The heart is mounted on a vivid, collage-style background—teeming with fragments of printed imagery, vintage patterns, cultural icons, hand-drawn flowers, and scraps of ephemera. This patchwork of visual memory surrounds the central form like a halo of life, chaos, and recovery. The layering feels intentional and intimate, echoing the way identity is pieced together from pain, joy, and everything in between. Hints of red throughout the corks feel like quiet pulses—perhaps symbolic of blood, love, or moments that stood out in the haze. There’s an undeniable tenderness to this work, both in its craftsmanship and its message. It doesn’t shy away from the past but instead elevates it into a narrative of transformation. By embedding his story directly into the materials—once destructive, now reborn— Voodo Fé offers not just a visual experience, but a spiritual one. This is art as testimony, heart as archive.
Title: Paper Flower • Medium: Multi-Media • Materials: Paper • Size/Dimensions: 30x30 This sculptural collage by Voodo Fé unfolds like a living archive—an intricate bloom made from layered pieces of vinyl record covers, each petal cut from fragments of musical history. The form is floral, but its substance is entirely rooted in culture and memory, drawing from the rich visual language of classic album art. Hints of familiar names and textures—Kool & the Gang, Cougar, snapshots of liner notes and iconic fonts—peek through the layered composition. These are not just design elements, but echoes of sound and story, woven together into a new kind of visual harmony. The petals seem to pulse outward, each one a note in a larger chord, creating a rhythm that’s felt as much as seen. At the center, a cluster of circular elements resembles the heart of a flower or the label of a record—anchoring the piece and suggesting a point of origin, like the needle dropping into the groove. It’s here that the spirit of the work lives: a meditation on legacy, craftsmanship, and the layers of creativity that shape collective memory. The piece plays with contrast—soft, organic forms made from sharp, deliberate cuts— inviting the viewer to reflect on how the past can be reshaped into something new without losing its essence. In Voodo Fé’s hands, familiar materials take on new meaning. This is not just a collage, but a carefully composed celebration of cultural resonance, where music becomes form, and memory takes shape in full bloom.
Title: Roses + Hearts • Medium: Multi-Media • Materials: Paper, faux roses, cardboard, Acrylic Paint, broken vinyl on Wood • Size/Dimensions: 39x34 This mixed media piece by Voodo Fé is a vibrant, tactile exploration of love, nostalgia, and emotional resilience—crafted from materials rich with metaphor and memory. The central image, a striking heart composed of densely rolled crimson paper tubes, pulses with intensity and texture, inviting the viewer to explore every shadow and curve. Nestled within the heart are two bright faux roses—bold, artificial, yet expressive— symbolizing love both everlasting and curated. Encircling the heart are shards of broken vinyl records, their jagged edges forming a protective, almost thorny border. These fragments are more than decorative—they echo the brokenness that love can endure, and the music that often holds us together through the fracture. Vinyl, once vessels of sound, now serve as silent witnesses to heartbreak, healing, and transformation. The background is a collage of vintage sheet music, record labels, and sepia-toned paper ephemera. It's a canvas of sonic history—echoes of jazz, blues, and soul—that speaks to the artist’s reverence for sound as a memory trigger and emotional map. The painted elements, including Voodo Fé’s signature, ground the piece in the present, while the overall composition feels timeless. This is a love letter written in layers—paper and paint, pain and passion. It’s at once romantic and raw, delicate and defiant. Voodo Fé uses familiar, even discarded materials to build something reverent, reminding us that love is not always polished—but it is always profound.
Title: Smile • Medium: Multi-Media • Materials: Paper, Acrylic Paint. On Wood • Size/Dimensions: 79x34 This powerful painting by Voodo Fé, executed directly on a salvaged door, is a striking exercise in emotional contrast and minimalist portraiture. The composition features a stark, black silhouette of a human head and upper body, devoid of detail except for a few white highlights: the glint in the eye, the top of the head, and a row of stylized, exaggerated teeth captured in a sharp smile. Set against a bold red backdrop, the figure emerges with an intense presence— simultaneously haunting and magnetic. The crimson background evokes passion, danger, and urgency, heightening the tension between the vivid color and the figure’s shadow-like form. The use of only black, white, and red creates a visual language that speaks volumes about identity, power, and the dualities we carry within us—seen and unseen, joyful and pained, real and imagined. The door as a canvas is a metaphor in itself: a threshold, a passage, a barrier. By painting on this everyday object, Voodo Fé invites the viewer to consider what it means to enter into one’s own truth, or perhaps confront a past self. The smile adds psychological depth and nuance to the otherwise minimalist figure. Signed discreetly near the edge, the work stays rooted in Voodo Fé’s consistent themes: transformation, identity, and emotional honesty. It's a conversation between color and silence, figure and void, public face and private shadow—an invitation to step through.
Title: St. Elizabeth Seton • Medium: Multi-Media • Materials: Paper, Acrylic Paint. On Wood • Size/Dimensions: 42x36 This evocative piece by Voodo Fé captures a deeply personal and painful chapter of his life—his time in Catholic school. The portrait features a young boy, presumably Voodo Fé himself, dressed in a white shirt and yellow tie, rendered with a patchwork of vivid, fragmented colors and raw textures that mirror internal chaos and psychological fragmentation. His face is broken into blocks of red, blue, black, and cream—each one evoking a sense of confusion, disconnection, and emotional rupture. A black bar stretches across his mouth, a visual silencing that speaks volumes. The most harrowing detail lies in the necktie. What first appears as part of a standard school uniform unmistakably doubles as a noose—a haunting visual metaphor. This chilling transformation speaks to the suffocating nature of his experience: the tie, once symbolic of discipline and order, becomes a device of control and erasure. For Voodo Fé, Catholic school wasn’t simply a restrictive environment—it was life-draining, a place where his spirit was nearly extinguished, where his dyslexia was misunderstood, and his creativity misdiagnosed. The background splits sharply—an aggressive red above and a void-like beige below. The red pulses with shame, anger, trauma; the beige feels sterile, numb, emotionally vacant. Above the boy’s head, a delicate white outline of a bird wrapped in thread or wire hovers —his spirit or imagination, bound but still enduring. His shirt is composed of a collage-like surface layered with newspaper or printed media, partially obscured by white paint. This suggests the imposition of diagnoses, expectations, and societal labels—flattening individuality into a "uniform." The use of camouflage tones in the tie-noose suggests the need to hide, to blend in, to survive within a system that offered no room for difference. Altogether, the piece becomes more than a portrait—it’s a visual reclaiming of the self. It is a testament to surviving the violence of forced conformity, to finding a voice in the aftermath of systemic silencing. With raw honesty and symbolic brilliance, Voodo Fé turns his pain into power, exposing the hidden wounds inflicted by institutions and reclaiming his story on his own terms.
Title: Vinyl Batman • Medium: Multi-Media • Materials: Vinyl Records • Size/Dimensions: 12x6 This sculptural piece by Voodo Fé, is a striking reimagining of an iconic figure through the lens of fragmented identity and resilience. Constructed entirely from shattered black vinyl records, the mask takes on the recognizable silhouette of Batman—but with jagged, uneven planes and sharp edges that interrupt the character's normally smooth, heroic aesthetic. The broken records—once tools of musical expression—are repurposed into armor. Their cracked, angular forms speak to a past marked by hardship, while simultaneously symbolizing transformation and reinvention. In this work, Batman becomes less of a fictional superhero and more of a metaphor for the artist himself: a protector forged from pieces of a broken history, still standing, still powerful. The long beak-like extension adds an almost mythical or shamanistic quality to the figure, suggesting a merging of identities—hero, creature, survivor. The glossy surface of the vinyl catches light like scars catching memory, each reflection revealing new layers of texture and depth. Mounted on a neck wrapped in aged, yellowed newsprint, the piece nods to legacy, media narratives, and the constant tension between image and truth. This is not the Batman of polished Hollywood myth. This is Batman as the outsider, Batman as the misunderstood, Batman as a vessel of broken beauty and resilience— echoing Voodo Fé’s broader body of work that reclaims pain as power and turns discarded materials into stories that cannot be ignored.
Title: Vinyl Guitar • Medium: Multi-Media • Materials: Paper, Acrylic Paint. On Wood • Size/Dimensions: 38x24 This artwork by Voodo Fé, titled "Vinyl Guitar," is both a tribute to musical legacy and a sculptural embodiment of resilience through fragmentation. Crafted from shattered vinyl records meticulously arranged to form the body of a guitar, the piece is as much about destruction as it is about reinvention. The fretboard is clean and smooth, while the guitar’s body—a mosaic of broken records—speaks to the complexity of creativity born from chaos. Each vinyl shard, with its original label still partially visible, tells a story of sound, nostalgia, and cultural memory. By reassembling these fragments into the shape of a guitar, Voodo Fé resurrects what was once broken—giving new voice to silenced music and lost time. But the story of "Vinyl Guitar" took an unexpected and disheartening turn. On the night of January 28, 2025, during an exhibition at the Aloft / Marriott, this powerful piece was stolen from the gallery wall. The circumstances of the theft remain mysterious— there were no known witnesses and no immediate leads on the perpetrator. The loss of the artwork is felt not just as a physical absence, but as a disruption of the energy and meaning it carried in the space. In many ways, the theft only amplifies the narrative behind "Vinyl Guitar": art is vulnerable, yet its message endures. Even in its absence, the piece continues to speak— about the value of creativity, the fragility of expression, and the unbreakable bond between art and identity.
Title: Warrior • Medium: Multi-Media • Materials: Paper, Acrylic Paint. On Wood • Size/Dimensions: 84x48 This powerful portrait by Voodo Fé is a striking tribute to his warrior lineage—a homage to the courageous and intelligent leaders in his Haitian ancestry. With bold, deliberate layering and textured collage techniques, Voodo Fé constructs a face that radiates strength, wisdom, and spiritual endurance. The figure’s expression is stoic and commanding, the eyes unwavering as if looking across generations. The palette—rich in earth tones, deep blacks, and golds—echoes both the land and the legacy, grounding the subject in heritage while elevating them to the status of a timeless icon. The use of patterned materials woven into the skin tones subtly references African textiles, bloodlines, and ancestral memory. The heavy contours and fragmented surfaces speak to struggle, resistance, and resilience—while the tight compositional focus on the face ensures an intimate, reverent encounter. Wrapped around the neck and shoulders are thick, almost armor-like coils that read as both adornment and protection—symbolic of the burdens carried and the power wielded. These are the marks of warriors—not just of battle, but of spirit, intellect, and leadership. In this way, the work refuses the idea of passive victimhood and instead uplifts a legacy of Black brilliance, strategy, and survival. This piece doesn’t just honor family—it honors a people. It’s an assertion that the past lives in the present, that resistance is generational, and that the artist himself stands in proud continuation of that sacred line.
