Rixy
Black Cherry Dreams
01. Hooked Up, 2024, fur, cow horn, found jewelry, 5 x 21 x 7.75 inches, $500.00
02. That Risk on My Wrist, 2024, acrylic, fabric on wood, 30 x 40 inches, $1500.00
03. The Hunter 2, 2025, acrylic on wood, 25 x 32.75 inches, $1500.00
04. The Hunted, 2024, acrylic, spray paint, fabric, faux fur, cow horn, found jewelry on foam, 15 x 50 x 11 inches (131 inches high when installed), $3000.00
05. The Hunter, 2024, acrylic, cowrie shells on wood, 10 x 20 inches, $1500.00
06. Tattoo My Skin 1, 2025, handpoke tattoo, on fake skin, deer bones, 11.5 x 6 inches, $400.00
07. Tattoo My Skin 2, 2025, handpoke tattoo, on fake skin, deer bones, 12 x 8 inches, $400.00
08. Tattoo My Skin 3, 2025, handpoke tattoo, on fake skin, deer bones, 9 x 9.5 inches, $400.00
09. Fly Through the Veil, 2024, leather, polyfill, hardware, found objects, 168 x 110 x 50 inches, $4000.00
10. Them Rowdyruff Boyz, 2024, acrylic, found lottery ticket on wood, 36 x 12 inches, $3000.00
11. En la casa de las Brujas, 2024, LED sign, animal horn, faux fur, 39.5 x 26 inches, (with horn 39.5 x 28 x 11 inches), $300.00
12. Check Yourself, 2024, drawing, found objects, wood on bracket, 14 x 28.5 x 11 inches, $1000.00
13. Ain’t No Sin, To Take Off Your Skin, and Dance Around in Your Bones, 2025, acrylic on carved wood, 55 x 72 inches, $5000.00
14. Nikole’s Dream, 2004, pencil drawing from 4th grade, 18 x 12 inches, NFS
Black Cherry Dreams
Black Cherry Dreams is a collection of experimental reflections of experiences of life and death; dreams and nightmares. The exhibition includes translations of the spirit through storytelling, painting, sculpture, and a site responsiveness that embodies the desire of dark fantasies, and the shadows in between. Some pieces break up elements of these imaginations. By using found materials and illustrative approaches, the works contain motifs, symbolism, and notes of the ancestry of Rixy’s Caribbean diaspora, as well as unknown worlds beyond.
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About the Artist
Rixy (1995) is an interdisciplinary street artist who stylizes the intersection of feminism, spirituality, and social justice in and around her Latinx Caribbean contemporary diaspora. The assemblaged nature of her worldbuilding is a call to animate the beauty of resilience in our cultures through imaginative projects. These works are typically reflected through paintings, sculptures, public art, and immersive installations, built on a foundation of sustainable access to local materials, processes, and education. The methods used in her work are often site-specific, using a mix of illustrative techniques, socially informed design, found objects, and artisanal embellishments. Rixy’s work reconstructs the vibrant beauty in global narratives to activate inclusive third spaces between private and public walls. Through this framework Cúcala was created, a neon storyisland that directly bridges our practice in social equity, identity, and empowerment.
Rixy has received accolades such as City of Boston’s Un-Monuments: Re-Monuments Public Art Research Grant, a Newell Flather Award for Emerging Leadership in Public Art, and a Next Level Aerosol Residency with Meridian International and Manaarat Al Saadiyat Museum in Dubai, UAE.
Her work has been shown globally and in various spaces including Meca Art Fair in Dominican Republic, with Rosa Projects in Oakland, MA, with Wassaic Project’s Haunted Mill in New York, and featured in ICA Boston.