Marques Edwards is a multidisciplinary artist and designer from Queens, New York, whose work explores the interiority (internal state of being) of Black people through bold color, silhouette, geometry, and symbolic form. Rooted in both design and fine art, his practice moves between structure and vulnerability, using rhythm, balance, negative space, and visual restraint to translate memory, emotion, and identity into physical form.

Edwards’ figures often appear as semi-flat black forms surrounded by robes, flowers, celestial shapes, architectural fragments, and layered fields of color. These figures are not rendered for realism. They are built as symbols, vessels, and icons. Through this approach, Blackness is not treated as something that needs to be explained, but as something already whole, sacred, complex, and alive.

Shape plays a central role in his visual language. Edwards intentionally creates movement where forms intersect, overlap, break, or disappear. At times, these intersections generate rhythm and tension. At other times, he leaves them open, allowing absence and interruption to become part of the story. 

Influenced by the visual confidence of Barkley L. Hendricks, the refined restraint of Malika Favre, and the symbolic power of Kara Walker, Edwards creates work that balances presence, clarity, contrast, and storytelling. His practice is grounded in the belief that simplicity can carry depth, silence can hold meaning, and Black figures can be seen as sacred, tender, powerful, mysterious, and radiant all at once.