At David Krut Workshop, Roxy Kaczmarek introduced Stephen Langa to screen-printing, a technique that suits Langa’s graphic, layered style. Langa explores nightclub scenes, focusing on human presence and interactions, often featuring black bodies in familiar settings. This series reimagines settings from his childhood and young adulthood, depicting people in and around gambling and pool-playing scenes. Langa’s compositions capture the essence of social encounters, blending chalk pastel and painting elements with screen-printing’s bold, graphic potential.
Langa continues his thematic framework of creating scenes and images that involve and feel familiar to the black body, focusing first on the human presence in his compositions. Langa explores imagery of people in and around scenes of gambling and pool-playing for this series. For these prints it manifests in reimagined settings from his childhood and young adulthood.
The suite comprises 20 works, each a unique iteration of the theme, crafted from 10 intricate layers of hand drawn positives. Langa and Kaczmarek explored diverse colour palettes, yielding variations, which Langa then embellished with expressive chalk pastel intervention.
