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Artist: Kenjji |
| Exhibition: Dtroit |
| Date: December 11 2003 - January 31 2004 |
Curator: Trevor Schoonmaker
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Bio:
Kenjji brings the Independent Black Comic Movement back to the forefront with his True Voodoo Action Series superhero, Dr. Jovan Carrington, a Haitian psychiatrist. WitchDoctor is a story of an internal struggle with self and its relation to history, memory, future and desire; a struggle between the rational worlds of academia, institution and science and the mystic world of spirits and ancestors.
Between material and ethereal.
Between forgetting and remembrance.
Between fear and resistance.
In WitchDoctor, Kenjji fuses these seemingly polarized realms. A medium of the spirit world, our hero uses the power of voodoo to wrestle malicious zombies, fight forces of evil, dispel stereotypes and misconceptions, and negotiate with the past.
Praised by The Museum of Black Superheroes, Kenjji is co-founder of Griot Comics and an accomplished animator. He created the critically acclaimed Eden web series, Georgia Pacific's Ringlet the Raccoon and designed covers for independent record labels, Bugz in the Attic, Omoamusic, Ubiquity, Planet E, and Subterraneous Records. Kenjji studied illustration at Western Michigan University and Detroit Center for Creative Studies. He's been featured in Hour Detroit, MetroTimes, NY Times, Detroit News, XLR8R, and the UK's Straight No Chaser. Dubbing his new style KUROIMANGA, Kenjji is poised to establish international landmarks for the Black Comic Movement.
~Tracy Boni
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