I make the art I want to collect. My practice is rooted in archiving Black American life across generations — the family, the neighborhood, the body, the fashion — and in treating ordinary moments as worthy of documentation and reverence. I work primarily in mixed media, collage, and text, drawn to materials that carry memory not only through image but through object, texture, and trace.
That same instinct extends into everything Andre and I build together. As art collectors, we've built our collection, By Procope, on a single belief: that living artists working in this space deserve to be seen together rather than scattered and overlooked. We host our gatherings and evenings as an extension of that collection — spaces where the work and the people who make it can finally be in the same room.
The consulting work is mine as well: the fundraising strategy, the donor societies, and the campaigns that help institutions do at scale what we do at home. Andre is the infrastructure behind all of it, building the systems, the platforms, and the quiet architecture that keep everything standing, running, and protected.
Writing, collecting, hosting, consulting, making — they're all different rooms in the same house. The materials change, but the instinct never does.
Andre and Nakisha Procope