Soulful Chickpeas
60 Irresistible Recipes with a Side of Humor, History & Heart.
Multidisciplinary artist
Jaqulin Joseph works across painting, sculpture, mixed media, photography, and wearable art—building a visual language of memory, identity, spirit, and survival.
Enter the exhibition
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“I create from the places where memory, culture, and imagination meet.”
Each work is allowed to hold its own atmosphere. The materials change, but the human presence remains—faces, bodies, symbols, histories, and the energy carried between them.
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Selected works

Painting
Several faces gather in one restless, expressive field. Bright color, attitude, contradiction and presence refuse to stay quiet.

Painting
Two blue faces inhabit the space between expression and silence—the invisible conversation of intuition, memory and emotion.

Painting
Familiar vessels and fruit become rhythm, movement and color as ordinary objects loosen into abstraction.

Original mixed-media painting
A meditation on belonging without sameness. Each color keeps its own voice while contributing to a larger whole.

Original painting
A private landscape between memory and becoming, where love, loss, gratitude and former versions of ourselves remain in color.
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Material, memory, form

Mixed-media assemblage
Photographic film becomes memory: what we have seen, what has been done to us, what we have carried and what refuses to disappear.

Mixed-media assemblage
The body becomes a vessel of ancestry, pain, survival and healing. We carry their wounds, their blood and their strength—and still, we rise.

Mixed-media relief painting
Created in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this work reflects loss, upheaval and survival. Cloth, layered surfaces and material memory carry floodwater, debris, wounds and history. The water receded. The memory did not.

Mixed-media relief
A portrait engaging questions of African strength, sovereignty, independence, dignity and self-determination.

Mixed media
An unbroken gaze meets a dense accumulation of line, texture and material.
Mixed media
Fragments, buried text and earthen color allow meaning to remain deliberately unresolved.
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Sculpture

Bronze sculpture
A solitary female figure occupies her own space with vulnerability, independence and quiet resolve.

Bronze sculpture
An angular form turns balance, tension and open space into upward movement.


Bronze sculpture · two views
Intertwined female forms create an intimate structure of protection, tenderness, recognition and strength.
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Selected photographs

Photography

Photography · layered image

Photography

Photography

Photography · collage
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Fine Funky Art · sneak peek
Jaqulin’s hand-painted purses turn the everyday accessory into a one-of-a-kind artwork. Each piece is individually painted—no two are alike.
Collection coming soon

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Writing & publications
60 Irresistible Recipes with a Side of Humor, History & Heart.
An imaginative coloring experience from Jaqulin Joseph.
Writing on fear, release, courage and the work of moving forward.
A Jaqulin Joseph publication exploring choice, consequence and the rooms we carry within us.
Practical reflection, resilience and encouragement for navigating single parenthood.

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About the artist
Artist, author, photographer, and creative force.
Jaqulin Joseph’s practice moves freely between disciplines. Her work is expressive and materially curious, guided by a commitment to tell the truth of lived experience through color, form, gesture, and image.
Across canvas, bronze, photography, found materials, and wearable art, she creates work that asks to be felt before it is explained.
Studio inquiries · exhibitions · commissions