Black Excellence: a’driane nieves
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a’driane nieves (b. 1982, San Antonio, Texas) is a visual artist and writer whose interdisciplinary practice explores the interior landscapes of the self. A self-taught painter for over a decade, she began painting in 2011 as a form of art therapy during recovery from postpartum depression and a subsequent diagnosis of bipolar disorder. What began as therapeutic experimentation gradually became a way to confront the emotional suppression rooted in her early experiences of abuse.