Ernest McKinley Waddell Jr. is an Indigenous American multidisciplinary artist born in Brooklyn, New York; raised in Bowie, Maryland; now living and working in Los Angeles, California.
Ernest has a Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts from New York University. With the exception of this training focusing on Acting and Theatre, he is a self taught artist.
Artist’s Statement
People observing me observe them with my camera.
Duality. Superposition.
Melanin.
Captivation. Catharsis. Commerce.
“I’m leaving here with something” -Denzel
Money and sex violently crashing into each other.
Ernest Waddell, Carrer de la Lleona, Gothic Quarter, Barcelona, Spain