The native Floridian is a conceptual fine and commercial artist.He works in numerous forms of media including charcoal, pen & ink, pastels, watercolor, and colored pencil.
The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale graduate has worked and collaborated with numerous people, corporations, and organizations over the years through his 33-year company with his wife, Trina Slade-Burks, ATB Fine Art Group Inc. (ATB).
He has also exhibited his artwork at various galleries, museums, and events. Some include the Biennial Exhibition at the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, exhibitions at the Palm Beach Art, Antique and Design Showroom, Book Ends Holding Up the Middle as They Should exhibition in Charlotte, NC, Harlem Fine Art Show in New York City, Soul Finger Project in both Virginia and North Carolina,and Four Corners of My Mind at two locations of Pompano Beach Arts.
Anthony utilizes his skills to encourage artistic youth and adults to further pursue their own creative talents and to help promote the arts.He has co-curated varies exhibitions including Continuum PB Arts Fair, Collaboration: African Diaspora Exhibition, Karibu and Boys II Men Art Expo just to name a few. These exhibitions have provided opportunities for emerging, mid-career and established artists and have exposed them to collectors who may not have had the opportunity otherwise. Over the last 20 years, he has also provided opportunities through arts education and creative techniques to develop artistic skills in drawing and art appreciation.
In 2015, Anthony created a brand under the ATB umbrella entitled Ethnic Mermaids. It was established after a brief conversation with a woman who mentioned that she wished that there were mermaids that looked like she and her daughter. None had natural hair (i.e., afros, locks, or braids) or anything that could relate to them. Under this brand he has created fine art, wearable art, and coloring books. He also collaborated with Florida artist Ramel Jasir on some of his larger mermaid fine art pieces.
Anthony has his work in public art spaces including the Canopy Hilton Hotel, Boynton Beach City Hall, and Broward College. He has received grants and was awarded funding from groups including NBAF (National Black Arts), and the National Artist Relief Covid-19 Grant. Early in 2020, the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County awarded Anthony as one of five Artist Innovation Fellowships. In the summer of 2021, Anthony had an acquisition from the Norton Museum of Art. His two pieces of art, Mirror Black and Juneteenth were both put into the R.H. Norton Permanent Collection. He also received a commission with the City of West Palm Beach’s Art in Public Places and the Community Redevelopment Agency to redevelop a community street sign and a permanent art installation both in the city’s downtown district.
Since then, he has become an artist in residence in a studio program called Zero Empty Spaces, has acquired the opportunity to be represented by Golden Galleries LLC based out of Colorado and his work has also been licensed to be used in one of Tyler Perry Productions, All the Queens Men.
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