You Can't Sit With Us - Episode (#85) - (rf3 the artist) - Presented by Threshold Brace

Hello, my name is Robert Fairley III, but my artist name is Rf3theartist. I’m a 22 year old African American artist born and raised in Nashville,TN. I’ve been drawing since age four , painting since I was in middle school, but started taking it seriously in high school. I graduated from high school in 2016 and completed 2 years of college at Watkins College of Art and then dropped out to pursue my art career. My reason for doing so was lack of support and wanting to be able to create my own art, on my own time, without anybody getting in the way of my dream or shutting down my ideas. My objective when I paint is to portray my vision, the underlining theme in my work is black culture, but not your average slavery and racial discrimination. I want to highlight the pop aspect of black culture, meaning using black celebrities in my work in the way I see them. I’m very inspired by Kehindé Wiley, I love how his floral and decorative backgrounds invade the space of his African American subjects. So in some of my pieces I’ve decided to put a little twist on that and instead of painting a whole background, I paint with oils on decorative fabrics. These fabric paintings are something that I’m doing for the moment, because I have so many more issues I want to work on that I’m interested in like the female rap culture ,hip hop/R&B, and the LGBTQ community. IG: @rf3theartist Hosts IG: @ambitious1k, @qdroppindope, @youcantsitwithusradio, @thresholdbrace   facebook:@you can't sit with us [email protected]. radio