Imperfect Father - Original Painting 2023 Part of the artist’s first

Part of the artist’s first exhibited collection

deserves all the love it can get

A butterfly rests on the face of young Cassius Clay

Shabazz Larkin made his picture book illustration debut with Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table

6″ × 18

Imperfect Father - Original Painting 2023 Part of the artist’s firstImperfect Father is a 48 60 inch acrylic painting by Nashville artist Shabazz Larkin. Its a big, unapologetic portrait about fatherhood the messy, imperfect, human kind. The kind where love and failure sit in the same chair. Larkin distorts the figure slightly, pushing the image away from polite portraiture and toward something more honest: the emotional architecture of being a father, of trying, of holding a family together even when you know youre