Denise Bradley-Tyson
2006, Mixed media on canvas, 34″ x 51″
This portrait was created as part of my San Francisco Bay Area Women of Style series (an ensemble of seventeen portraits) that was exhibited at the Nordstrom San Francisco flagship store couture department in 2006. At the time this portrait was created Denise was the Executive Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), a museum she helped launch and establish.
Denise is now Founder and CEO of Inspired Luxe. On her Inspired Luxe web site Denise shares an inspirational blog post, “Chanel’ing” Iris, that I highly recommend reading. It addresses the topic of personal style and applies equally to art making as well as to fashion.