Demetri Broxton is a mixed media artist whose work explores ancestral memory, cultural identity, and spiritual resistance within the African Diaspora.
For a decade, MoAD’s Emerging Artist Program has introduced audiences to Bay Area artists on the cusp of wider recognition.
Demetri Broxton’s ornate hand-stitched beaded portraits speak of ancestral stories.
Known for his intricate mixed-media, beaded pieces exploring Black history, local artist Demetri Broxton mines personal history in Ancestral Echoes.
Linda Rotua Sormin is a New York-based artist and 2025 Joan Mitchell Fellow. We interviewed her about her work and creative practice in March 2026. The following is excerpted and edited from the artist’s responses.
Each work stands as a radiant tribute to Queer life resistance and community, celebrating its bombastic, glittering glory with longing, reverence, and exuberance.
The usual material hierarchy placing painting above textile arts is reversed, both literally and metaphorically.
These works are maximalist, celebrating visible, queer, and conscientious life with a studied virtuosity that responds to the clarion call of Sylvester’s notorious falsetto.
The artist in this review, Jen P. Harris, combines a painted canvas with a woven layer over it.