Search: 24 results found for "Ezeh Divine Favour"

Mixed-media artwork of a muscular man drawn in charcoal, wearing a waist cloth and a geometric orange and grey mask, with floating patterned red-orange forms on a peach wavy-line background.

Curator's Note

St. Clvtch gives the warrior spirit within him an ancestral face: a Benin-inspired mask honouring his Edo roots, worn over a body in heavy …

Edo/Benin

Warrior Within

Yr. 2022

Joshua AdegboyeJoshua A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Abstract digital artwork of a pale glowing circle crossed by a thin horizontal white line, surrounded by dark torn textures, peach shapes and streaks of rainbow colour on a gradient ground.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Everything here pulls toward the pale circle at the centre, and one thin white line cuts straight through it. That line, Aiyedogbon says, i…

Yoruba

Vortex

Yr. 2023

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black-and-yellow illustration of CMS Cathedral in Lagos with its clock tower against a large yellow sun; a man in a dark suit walks past taxis and a bus stop sketched in yellow line.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

In Lagos, CMS is as much a direction as a building. Anth Ezeokoye gives the church its place in Made in Lagos. It is a series made to prese…

Yoruba

CMS Church, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Faceted digital portrait of a Black man with a large afro circled by a glowing white ring, one eye shining like a star, in an ochre robe over one shoulder, under an arch of gold scrollwork on teal.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

A ring of white light, one eye flaring like a star, an ochre robe over a bare shoulder. Dayo paints Christ as a young African man with a fu…

Yoruba

Black Messiah

Dayo Gerard AkindoyeniDayo G. A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Pen-and-ink drawing of a rhinoceros suspended in the air by about twenty thin threads, each held by a tiny winged insect, on a pale coffee-stained background.

STU. 60/60

Curator'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…

Igbo

Teamwork

Yr. 2020

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Digital artwork of a frontal head and neck covered in black and white marbling, with teal, pink and pale blue lilies behind it and a black sphere beside the cheek, on a deep violet background.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

The face is all there, looking straight at us, and still it nearly vanishes. Black and white marbling runs across the features until skin b…

Undeclared

Camouflage

Yr. 2023

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

Ai_mayor reduces the person to a black outline, eyes closed, and still makes it the calmest thing in the frame. Flowers, stripes and a purp…

Yoruba

Stainless

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Black and yellow illustration of Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos: the control tower, 'MURTALA MUHAMMED AIRPORT LAGOS' lettering, a plane taking off, a parked plane and a ZENITH sign.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

One plane parked, one lifting away: the two halves of every trip home. Anth Ezeokoye spells the airport's name across the terminal exactly …

Yoruba

Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black and yellow illustration of Oshodi, Lagos: an old Mercedes bus seen from the front, a cable footbridge over the road, a crowd, a man in a striped football shirt and the sun.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

The molue at the front of this picture has mostly left Lagos roads, which is exactly why it belongs here. Anth Ezeokoye parks the old Merce…

Yoruba

Oshodi, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Digital portrait of a woman in black and white with shaved head tipped back and eyes closed, a white circle drawn around one eye, framed by blue and magenta Ankara wax-print fabric and peach satin petals.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

Silk has always meant luxury. Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon gives the word to Ankara, wrapping a woman in Nigeria's beloved wax-print cloth: our …

Yoruba

In Silk

Yr. 2023

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Portrait of a woman with two afro buns in black and white, diagonal shadow stripes across her face, a pink dahlia behind her head, a hand on her shoulder, on a peach-to-violet gradient.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Her face is drawn in black and white while everything around her blooms in colour. Then you notice the hand resting on her shoulder, the on…

Yoruba

Missus

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black-and-yellow illustration of the Ikoyi Link Bridge in Lagos: the cable-stayed bridge and its single pylon, with small sketched wings, in front of a large yellow sun, above a street of buildings.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Lagos is a city held together by its crossings, and Anth Ezeokoye gives one of its newest landmarks the same affection as its oldest. In Ma…

Yoruba

Ikoyi Link Bridge, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Find a work, an artist, a tradition

Warrior Within

Vortex

CMS Church, Lagos

Black Messiah

Teamwork

Camouflage

Stainless

Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos

Oshodi, Lagos

In Silk

Missus

Ikoyi Link Bridge, Lagos