Demarcus McGaughey

DIRECTOR

Demarcus McGaughey, a Texas native and Brooklyn-based mixed media artist, passionately captures the beauty, strength, and vibrancy of people of color. McGaughey specializes in a style that combines painting, photography, mixed media, and graphic design. In his art, McGaughey’s art pays homage to cultural influences with elements of pop art, mass media, comic books, and advertising in his pieces and his portraiture work reveals triumphant tales of African American subjects who have manifested their destiny. Behind his art, McGaughey is a certified life coach, he passionately empowers his coaching community that life is what you create it to be. Throughout his 20-year art career, McGaughey has worked with prestigious brands and organizations, including Beyoncé Knowles Carter and beverage giant Dr. Pepper. His work has been highlighted in numerous magazines and galleries stateside in New York and Texas, and globally in Spain. He has completed art residencies with Mas el sigols in Barcelona, Nfinit Foundation Arts Residency in Brooklyn, and Art Crawl Harlem in New York. He has the distinct honor of being selected as a 2021 Artist-In-Residence at Chateau Orquevaux in France. Through his captivating lens, Demarcus McGaughey hopes to continue to inform inspiring stories of Black triumph.