Illustrative paintings and collages by Grace Lynne Haynes portray fashionable African-American women in their day-to-day lives. The portraits are full of sherbet hues and soft, enticing textures which are set against the opaque black forms of female figures. Haynes is influenced by modern and contemporary portraiture, from the photography of Carrie Mae Weems to the quintessential modernism of Henri Matisse. She also draws inspiration from fashion magazines, singer Nina Simone and traditional fabrics collected from Senegal and South Africa. Subtle references in the work contain personal meaning. Hummingbirds, for example, appear throughout the paintings to represent the artist’s grandmother.