Kemar Keanu Wynter “Rücken” in Brooklyn Rail

What first looks like a moody expanse of chocolate and burnt umber with hints of green and rose gold gives way, upon closer inspection, to a set of underlying patterns. At evenly spaced intervals, lighter shades of mauve produce long narrow islands snaking their way from the bottom to the top of the painting. Looking closer still, one can find a few partial pale horizontal fragments of lines. The mood in Endo, Exo (Spiced Hot Chocolate) (2024) is cozy. Despite the painting’s large size (70 by 101 inches), it invites viewers to give themselves over to noticing the irregular accumulations of pigments and the variety of hazy shapes. This is the warmth and fuzzy embrace of spiced hot chocolate when contemplated deeply.

https://brooklynrail.org/2024/10/artseen/kemar-keanu-wynter-rucken/