Life Grids

Andre was born in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn in 1982, where he has spent most of his life. He began performing in the streets and bars of NYC at the age of 20. Much of it being the creation of his drag alter ego, Shaquanda Coca Mulatta. The body of his work has been in performance, sculpture, painting/drawing and film. Much of the conversation is reflected by where he grew up, New York City, more specifically Bedford-Stuyvesant. Repetition, and the theories brought from the fourth dimension and fractals, are a reoccurring theme in his visual work. He is also a collective member in the group The Dazzle Dancers, and HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN, who appeared in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.