Search: 81 results found for "Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel Komaiya"

Surreal portrait of a figure with locs and folded arms in a black sweater, face blacked out except silver eyes and lips, a red and blue betta fish on the shoulder, on a yellow-to-pink gradient.

Curator's Note

The face is filled with black, leaving only silver eyes and lips, so the person stays unnamed. The one bright, living thing is a red and bl…

Yoruba

Somebody

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Dense black-and-white illustration of a large face with closed eyes, a hand holding a small vessel, a serpent with a face, a many-faced figure, and women dancing, drumming and carrying below.

STU. 59/60

Curator'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 …

Ugandan

Offerings

Marjory Yeko JewittMarjory Y. J.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Geometric illustration of a heart made of overlapping crystal shards in yellow, orange, blue and pink, outlined by translucent facets, on a deep purple background.

LTD. 15/15

Curator'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…

Igbo

Stronger Together

Yr. 2021

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

3.25 (4)

From$450· Limited Edition· Ltd. 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.

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.

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.

Photograph of a person in a pearl-studded crown and dark flared robe, looking over the shoulder with light-catching eyes, backlit in yellow-gold light, blue-white smoke rising around the robe.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Omotayo Tajudeen lights his sitter from behind until the gold seems to come from the figure itself. The crown is beaded, the robe sweeps ou…

Yoruba

Idan

Yr. 2022

Omotayo TajudeenOmotayo T.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Abstract digital artwork on black: an iridescent form in teal, violet and yellow surrounding a circle split between blue marbling and a black-and-white maze pattern, with orange accents.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

The rare Ai_mayor picture with no face in it, only the surfaces he usually builds faces from. At its centre a round window splits between l…

Yoruba

Vignette

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Digital portrait of a Black woman with vitiligo, eyes closed, face lifted to a purple sunrise sky, wearing large green hoop earrings.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Emmanuel takes the thing a woman is taught to cover and paints it as weather: vitiligo shaped like clouds at first light. It is the gentles…

Undeclared

Sunrise

Yr. 2022

Emmanuel AbakahEmmanuel A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration of a blue-skinned woman, head tilted back and eyes closed, white scalloped pattern on face and chest, flower earring, flying bead necklace, before a pale dripping moon on red swirls.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Notice Me is a title that asks, and a pose that does not need to. Her head is tipped back, eyes closed, beads flying loose from her throat:…

Yoruba

Notice Me

Yr. 2023

Michael C. EkenobiMichael C. 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.

Painterly photograph of drummers in cream robes and caps walking in procession, dark red drums at their sides, on red earth under a bright blue sky, with an arch and crowd at right.

STU. 20/20

Curator'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 …

Inspired by the Nupe royal court

Royal Drummers

Yr. 2019

Omotayo TajudeenOmotayo T.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Find a work, an artist, a tradition

Somebody

Offerings

Stronger Together

Stainless

Vortex

In Silk

Idan

Vignette

Sunrise

Notice Me

Black Messiah

Royal Drummers