Masie Love

Masie Love is an abstract artist who uses her colorist skills to distort and transform the subject matter in her work. Love’s art is inspired by her African American ancestry and lived experience and thinks of herself as a vessel to tell her people’s collective stories through paintings and textiles. In her most recent work, Love is trying to decolonize landscape art by making spaces unrecognizable and therefore unable to be stolen. With the isolation caused by the pandemic and the rise of media showing violence against black people Love has found a new purpose in her art, to create spaces (landscapes) in which black people can show vulnerability, feel joy, and not carry the burdens of simply being black in America. 

Currently, Masie Love is studying drawing and painting in the Bachelors of Fine Arts program at the California State University of Long Beach. In 2021, her work was selected to be in the INSIGHTS exhibition curated by the School of Arts at CSULB, as well as being awarded the Linda A. Day Memorial Scholarship for her art.