“Black Green Lantern” by Antwan Jones

Antwan Jones has been working out of ECF Art Centers' South L.A. studio since 2003. Antwan Jones’ artwork is profoundly influenced by popular culture, specifically rap and hip-hop music, comic books, horror films and video games. In his paintings and drawings, he fuses references to contemporary culture with historic symbols of life and death to create a kind of multicultural amalgamation of popular signifiers. Jones often inserts his own name or image into the inter-textual universes he creates, expanding the richness and depth of the cultures that fascinate him.