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59 results for “Funmilayo Todimu Tejumola”
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Àríké carries the name her family chose: meant to be spoiled on sight. Funmilayo Tejumola paints her as a young woman preparing for marriag…
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Awẹlẹwà, the slender, beautiful one, carries what Funmilayo Tejumola calls the hope of an African renaissance. Under a gold-beaded fringe h…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
KeO calls her a mask depicting the beauty of a young lady. He then gives her a tongue stuck out at the viewer and a star for a beauty mark.…
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LTD. 15/15Curator's Note
Look twice: what reads as a single heart is two, conjoined, cut from brilliant crystal shards. Anth Ezeokoye makes the join almost invisibl…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
In Nigeria, a celebration has not begun until someone dances. Ekundayo catches three dancers at its height, faces left in soft pencil, the …
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
Look at her ears: two steel hex nuts where gold should be. Yemisi wears a crown of beaded tendrils and two sharpened red combs. KeO makes h…
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STU. 59/60● Selling FastCurator's Note
Some women do not wait to be noticed. Ekundayo leaves her body as pencil and paints only the chartreuse dress, and her carriage does the re…
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COLL. 30/30Curator's Note
A butterfly's beauty is half the story; the rest is the change it took. Ekundayo dresses three women for the moment of emerging, the one at…
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Tajudeen photographed a procession of drummers in cream robes under a hard blue sky, then reworked it until it moved like paint. The faces …
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
The cheekiest of KeO's named cards: lashes lowered, tongue out, and a pair of combs hung at her ears as earrings. He takes the humblest too…
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Seen from far above, a few tiny people cross a field of flowing black lines towards a pool on a raised white disc. Each trails a long shado…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
About twenty insects, each on its own thread, lift a rhinoceros that seems entirely at peace with the arrangement. Anth Ezeokoye's pen draw…
