Jacksonville, FL
A practice rooted in digital illustration, painting, and contemporary figurative portraiture, Amanda Howell Whitehurst constructs work that engages with memory, identity, and self-possession, holding space for a quiet but unwavering sense of presence.
Based in Jacksonville, Florida, Amanda Howell Whitehurst works across digital illustration, painting, and modern–vintage comic traditions. Her compositions feature rich, earthy palettes, painterly textures, and a careful attention to gaze, posture, and hair—elements that carry both cultural history and personal symbolism.
While her practice moves between personal exploration and commissioned work, the through-line remains consistent: portraits that reflect confidence, and presence without excess. Her work celebrates the beauty, complexity, and quiet strength of women like herself, drawing inspiration from the stories, music, and lived experiences that shape life.
Presented at A3 scale (420 × 297 mm) on 250 gsm stock, each work is authenticated and issued by LOUD PALETTE, la GALERIE®, ensuring its place within the edition.
Braided Baldie Baddie & Soul Sculpt, includes a hand-signed element from the artist’s original canvas.
Bradied Baldie Baddie, presented with a subtle white border framing print, reinforcing the composition and placement.
SOUL SCULPT I
Digital Painting
2024
edition.title: “Soul Sculpt I”
edition.medium: Digital Painting
edition.year: 2024
Presented at A3 scale (420 × 297 mm) on 250 gsm stock, each work is authenticated and issued by LOUD PALETTE, la GALERIE™, ensuring its place within the edition.
Works includes a hand-signed element from the artist’s original canvas.
Limited Quantities Available
SOUL SCULPT II
Digital Painting
2024
edition.title: “Soul Sculpt II”
edition.medium: Digital Painting
edition.year: 2024
Presented at A3 scale (420 × 297 mm) on 250 gsm stock, each work is authenticated and issued by LOUD PALETTE, la GALERIE™, ensuring its place within the edition.
Limited Quantities Available
BRAIDED BALDIE BADDIE
Digital Painting
2023
edition.title: “Braided Baldie Baddie”
edition.medium: Digital Painting
edition.year: 2023
Presented at A3 scale (420 × 297 mm) on 250 gsm stock, each work is authenticated and issued by LOUD PALETTE, la GALERIE™, ensuring its place within the edition.
Presented with a subtle white border framing print, reinforcing the composition and placement.
Works includes a hand-signed element from the artist’s original canvas.
Limited Quantities Available
In our Palette
Within LOUD PALETTE, la GALERIE®, Amanda Howell Whitehurst’s work operates at the intersection of modern portraiture and visual storytelling. Her approach resists excess and over-articulation, instead insisting on restraint, clarity, and the power of the composed figure.
What emerges is a body of work that does not simply present itself for viewing, but asks to be held in consideration—materially, emotionally, and contextually.
In the context of EDITIONS: DROP 01, this placement reflects an ongoing commitment to the preservation and expansion of contemporary Black portraiture, with particular attention to interiority, authorship, and representation.
Amanda Howell Whitehurst works through digital and painterly portraiture, building a visual language shaped by controlled gesture, softened edges, and intentional stillness. The practice is grounded in the figure as both subject and site—where identity is neither performed nor explained.
I. Figure
The work navigates a space between visibility and introspection—between what is seen and what is withheld. This tension resists spectacle, allowing the subject to remain self-contained, composed, and fully present without external demand.
II. Interior
Through layered digital processes and painterly texture, Amanda develops compositions that soften the boundary between illustration and painting. Color, hair, and posture are treated with precision, allowing each element to carry both aesthetic and cultural weight.
III. surface
Within LOUD PALETTE, la GALERIE®, this body of work is situated within an ongoing dialogue around contemporary Black portraiture and the preservation of quiet image-making. It reflects a commitment to work that prioritizes presence over performance, and depth over immediacy.
IV. Continuity
This body of work is presented as part of EDITIONS: DROP 01.
Comprising a focused selection of works, the series explores the relationship between self-image and cultural memory. Working through digital illustration layered with painterly texture and compositional control, Amanda Howell Whitehurst extends her practice into a space of refinement and quiet assertion.
Each work exists as part of a limited release, reinforcing both the material presence of the image and its position within a broader evolving archive of contemporary figurative work.