A YOUNG BLACK WOMAN by Rapheal Akano Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Acrylic and charcoal on canvas Dimensions: 18 x 24 in Year: 2025 Price: $800.00 USD Status: available A YOUNG BLACK WOMAN is a female person of African descent who is in the early stage of life Why collect this work?A carefully modelled grayscale likeness is pressed against an apparently vivid, block-like cityscape, making the sitter’s composed presence more structurally coherent than her surroundings. The artist profile states that Rapheal Akano works across charcoal and acrylic to explore identity, emotion and human connection. Here, that concern is concentrated in the face rather than established through narrative detail.As photographed, the head and shoulders dominate the canvas. Smooth tonal transitions define skin, hair and reflected light, while irregular vertical forms rise behind and partially overlap the lower body, placing the figure between portrait and constructed environment.The documented acrylic and charcoal medium permits a division between sustained tonal modelling and opaque areas of colour. Sharp contours hold the face intact as the surrounding marks become abbreviated and discontinuous.For a collection examining contemporary portraiture, this 2025 work provides a focused case of likeness set against urban abstraction, with dignity conveyed through scale, direct gaze and formal control rather than biographical explanation. About the ArtistRapheal Akano Rapheal Akano is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: mixed-media. Based in Oyo, NG. Nationality: Nigerian Through art, I aim to communicate Beauty of African, emotion, identity, and the subtle details of human experience.
