ABOUT Starkim
We artists are indestructible; even in prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell." --Pablo Picasso
My art is thought-bending interpretations of the human condition. I created the majority of my art while in prison and I use all mediums to exemplify my range in an attempt to connect with my viewer. At times, our society's norms can seem intangible; however, my aim is to make them palpable through the abstract side of humanity's existential spectrum. My entire catalog is a gesamtkunstwerk*.
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Lamarr Little grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn and came home after a 25-to-life prison sentence.
During his life on the streets, he was shot by a New York City police officer. While incarcerated, he began doing artwork. First he painted stage sets for Rehabilitation Through the Arts and later powerful posters for organizations like RAPP, Queers for Justice and Transforming Lives. His strongly emotive work can be both seen and felt in the over 2,000 images he has created, ranging from pencil drawings to oil and acrylic paintings Lamarr’s artwork is intended to convey positive messages that have the power to lift the spirits of all who view them. From 2003 to 2007, Lamarr was a member of the Reality & Pain Life Skills Peer Counseling Program at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville, New York, teaching workshops in drawing, painting, and poetry to fellow incarcerated individuals.
From 2018 to 2019, while in Eastern New York Correctional Facility, he chaired the Inmate Liaison Committee. Currently, he is a facilitator with the Alternative to Violence Project, which teaches anger management and alternatives to violence, mentors the newly incarcerated, and teaches other incarcerated people how to express themselves through art. He recently founded The Erasure Project, which examines the racial roots of mass incarceration through images.