Mab is a 26-year-old airbrush artist from New Haven, Connecticut, whose work lives at the intersection of fine art and the Black body — especially the Black woman’s body — as both canvas and statement.

Using airbrush as weapon and love language, she paints directly onto skin — onto life — reclaiming what the world too often seeks to define or confine. Her practice bridges the gap between what fine art calls “high” and what Black communities have always known to be sacred: their bodies, their beauty, their power.

For Mab, body painting is not decoration but transformation — an act of reclamation, defiance, and tenderness. Each curve and color becomes part of a living gallery that reimagines Blackness as art, not object.

Her work demands feeling as much as seeing — a reminder that the Black body is fine art, and always has been.