Painting the architecture of belonging

Josiane Faubert was born in Gabon, grew up between French and African domestic worlds, and now lives and works in Seattle. That particular journey — across geographies, languages, and the specific texture of rooms — is what her paintings are made of.

She came to oil painting without formal training, drawn to the medium's warmth, its capacity to hold light inside color, and its long history of placing certain people inside certain rooms. Her practice centers Black women in domestic interiors: not as subjects to be observed, but as figures in full possession of their space — reading, cooking, tending to one another, simply being.

Faubert received Second Place in the 61st Annual Juried Competition at the Masur Museum of Art, juried by Kerry Inman of Inman Gallery, Houston. Her work is held in private collections and is available for exhibition.

She is also the founder of PICHA Stock, a platform amplifying Afrocentric visual storytelling — but painting is where she lives.