Eastern Portion of Black Sea

Yoakum was a Black artist of Indigenous heritage, known for surreal landscapes, which he once described as “a spiritual unfoldment.” Though Yoakum purported to have seen every landscape he drew, he was not interested in recreating exact recordings. Eastern Portion of Black Sea conjures the artist’s memory of the location and evokes the feeling of being there. The Caucasus Mountains rise and swell impossibly, folding in on themselves above uniform forests and stylized waves in the sea.