Nick-Edward Woolley—EAST FLATBUSH

Wooley’s project Rasin ak Rezon is a community-based public art project that honors East Flatbush’s immigrant small-business owners and matriarchs through monumental, mixed-media portraits. By integrating oral history listening circles, open-studio creation, and an outdoor vernissage, the initiative transforms neighborhood spaces into living monuments of Caribbean resilience and cultural sovereignty.

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Nick-Edward Woolley “NE.W” is a Caribbean-American visual artist based in New York City with over a decade of expertise. He has had art expositions at the Kube Art Center with Ethan Cohen Gallery in New York, Gallery Monnin in Haiti, Bk Historical House in New Orleans, etc. He has been mentored by the late Ronald Mevs, Patricia Brintle and more. His work has been featured in Haitian Times, le Nouvelliste, ABC, Univision and so on. Classified as a portrait artist, his skill set includes acrylic painting, pencil and ink drawing, and curation. Nick-Edward’s artistic journey is imbued with his love for history, BIPOC representations, women and feminine energy, spirituality (Voodoo and Catholicism mainly), esoteric aspects of subcultures, symbolism via expressive portraits as an ancestral vessel in order to showcase the untold stories and beauties while adhering to artistic mastery and esthetics. He creates pieces that evoke “pathos”, the appeal to emotions.