Nina Chanel Abney is one of the more important artists working in America today. Her works tackle themes of race identity, politics, policing, sexuality, and celebrity using an instantly recognisable visual language of incredible immediacy and immutable graphic force.

Her work Anytime Anyplace can be held up as an exemplar of her work for its colourful all-over composition, for its liberal use of spray-paint, and for the influence it takes from artist’s like Keith Haring.Like Haring, Abney’s unique and idiosyncratic aesthetic style translates perfectly into mural form. Like Haring, she works with a spirit of improvisation:

Abney does not plan her compositions in advance but rather works...