Tag: Nigerian artist
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Toyin Ojih Odutola: The Topography of the Mark Born in Nigeria in 1985 and raised in the United States, Toyin Ojih Odutola treats the surface of the skin as a landscape. She is a master of drawing, using charcoal and pen to create intricate, layered marks that give the Black skin a shimmering, metallic quality.…
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Kehinde Wiley: The New Old Master Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977) is perhaps the most famous portraitist in the world today. His method is a form of “street casting”: he finds young Black men and women in cities like New York, Dakar, or London and asks them to choose a pose from a classical Old Master…