Black Excellence: Qualeasha Wood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualeasha_Wood
Qualeasha Wood (born 1996) is an American textile artist. Her work often deals with representation of African-American women in internet culture.[1]
https://www.houldsworth.co.uk/artists/174-qualeasha-wood/overview
In her textile practice, Wood brings together traditional craft techniques and contemporary technology. Her own image acts as a point of departure for works that explore racial, sexual and gender identity as they relate to the Black femme body. As a digital native, Wood deftly navigates an internet environment that is at once a space of celebration and recognition for Black femme figures, as well as a politically loaded site for the ongoing marginalisation and exploitation of their selfhood and culture. Woods’ tapestries combine cybernetic and analogue processes; in her work, a pixel is equivalent to a stitch, each stitch an analogy for the past, present and future of Black femmehood, both on- and off-line, pre- and post-internet.