Oasa DuVerney's Black Power Wave

For Oasa DuVerney's first solo exhibition at Welancora Gallery in Brooklyn, "A World to Live In," she makes her graphite drawings serve as both admonition and promise. The 43-year-old artist, who was born in Queens to Trinidadian parents, has been a relentless advocate for the cause of valuing and protecting the lives of Black people. As she explains on the gallery's website, "The figures in these works are rendered with the care, compassion and understanding that the Black body deserves but isn't always afforded."