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84 results for “ugandan fine art prints”
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STU. 59/60Curator's Note
The most crowded of Yeko's pictures, and the most devotional. There is a great face with closed eyes, a hand lifting a small vessel, women …
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
The collar is the detail to find: wide, white and a little old-fashioned, worn with complete confidence. Ekundayo keeps her face in quick p…
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COLL. 30/30Curator's Note
Yeko builds sky, hills and girl from one rhythm of strokes, until it is hard to tell where the young woman ends and the earth begins.
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
There is a moment when something long known becomes clear. Mikenobi gives it a carved face, in the spirit of the Igbo carvings that give fo…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
For Yeko, the mask is where a people and their gods meet. Source draws a face in profile built entirely from pattern, cowries, eyes and wav…
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
The power here is in the angle: she is turned away from us, looking forward. Then you find the map of Africa inked on her neck, and the por…
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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
Yeko calls it a spiritual journey of self discovery and growth. Her tall, unhurried woman walks through water drawn as a field of circles. …
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COLL. 30/30Curator's Note
Everyone has made this face, and everyone has received it. Ekundayo leaves the young man in loose pencil and spends his only paint on a ban…
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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. 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. 20/20Curator's Note
Dayo made his old man for the elders he grew up around, the quiet ones who have seen a lot and carry it with dignity. White beard against a…
