About

Over 40 years and counting, Nommo’s art resonate with struggle, culture, and people. literally, Nommo’s paintbrush is as a writer. In every painting, he is telling a story of African kinship and conceptual experiences — disruptive, visual imagery that is a paradigm shift of what each viewer accepts as reality —deeply connected to an innerstanding of oneself.

Nommo stays aware of current and evolving the complexities of the African identity with such color, motifs, design, and ideas that it is hard to believe that he will ever ends a with forward and creative way of expression. The ways he applies acrylic is fast, and not in between the lines that transforms one’s thought with new beginnings and new endings.

As a Fine Artist who paints, digital and traditionally upwards of 20 paintings a year, Nommo’s wants to tell the truth? To be seen as a voice and expression of the unseen, Unheard and unspoken

Our ancestors have been forgotten and have been trampled; there’s legacy stolen and copied and pasted on to the world as if we have no body of work. Much of Diop’s messaging reflects the people as if speaking to our hearts. Connecting to the soul. From books of sketches and loose lines to sharp color to hints of social justice, his art creates space in an artistic way to the questions, who am I? Am I really who I say I am? Am I all that I ought to be?

“ What we can’t imagine, can’t come to be “ –

~Bell Hooks

Artist

Greetings! I am an artist named Nommo Kofi Diop when I think back over the years and ask why I became an artist? My beloved and honorable mother Willie Jean Barnes gave me inspiration, she was beauty, persistence and awe. I tell stories with art; I use picture as words to explain the heritage of African people. Nommo’s worldview see no kinship or possibilities or future for our people in a world that’s Anti African mother.

The art of storytelling through art is arduous, challenging, and rewarding. Social Justice art takes deep contemplation, to tell important concepts and explore through art, I must spend hours reading, working and studying with kinfolk and learn to ask why we have evolved or created to be in the present state, Africa on the Move.com is the story of art told self-expression through exposure.

The creation of life is a story as well as a form of art, Industrial Maintaining.org is an epistemology painted, drawn and envision through the mothers and people from the bottom looking up.

BIO

Nommo Kofi Diop a social artist and collective healer

“I make politics central to the aesthetics of my artworks if you are not viewing my works through politics then what is seen is never seen”

BIO Nommo Kofi Diop
“Resistance” completes a journey to display the artwork from an art school student to professional artists who address propaganda against us as an African people, the need for justice for the masses who are exploited and oppressed by racism, sexism, and capitalism, and finally to transform a worldwide system of exploitation and oppression into a world that allows us to connect with the universal law of nature.
Born in San Francisco, I studied Art BA (general studio practice) at San Jose State University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2000. I worked as a San Francisco Firefighter for twenty-three years. Now, retired in Dallas, Texas I am pursuing my career as Artist.
Painting and drawing for over 40 years, and now my emphasis is on showing my works to the larger collective. By deconstructing the social structures that prevent self-expression and exposure to create an environment full of African thought that looks forward to the possibilities and kinship of the people now.
My Digital works are for sale locally around Dallas in various locations as well as online. My artwork most recently has been seen in Maine and New Hampshire. But some major cities have been seen in Chicago, San Francisco, and throughout Texas. I have been in various Art Shows in Dallas recently at the African American Museum Dallas. I also have given several paint parties here in Dallas and San Francisco. These paint parties have aimed to build more appreciation of Art amongst African people in our communities.