Elizabeth Colomba is a representational artist of Martinican descent, born and reared in France and currently living and working in New York City. On graduating from college, she applied her skills to storyboard advertising and moved to Los Angeles to pursue painting while working on feature films (Catwoman, A Single Man, Jesse James). Nicknamed “the black Vermeer,” she creates paintings that depict “traditional” historical and literary subjects as black, enabling her to challenge our inherited perceptual modes and conspicuously generating a space for her subjects to inhabit the rewriting of their history. Her message is an egalitarian one of beauty in coexistence.