Ominous Black

United States

Credentials

  • Works on commission
Gabriel Broady, known as Ominous Black, creates expressive figurative paintings, drawings, and prints that focus on the emotional, psychological, and spiritual aspects of human experience. Working with both canvas and paper, he employs gestural brushwork, pronounced contrasts of light and shadow, layered surfaces, and energetic mark-making. Broady centers the human body in his compositions, drawing on gesture, posture, hands, facial expression, and symbolic imagery rather than traditional portrait conventions. His work examines identity, vulnerability, human connection, and resilience, with subjects often caught between intimacy and tension, strength and vulnerability, darkness and illumination.
Ominous Black
Interwoven
$950
Painter, Printmaker, Visual Artist