Search: 51 results found for "Samuel Oladimeji"

Painting of figures at a brown table on turquoise: a man with an afro in black, one hand dark and one pale, a bald man in dark glasses holding a red heart, a grinning skeleton in a blue hoodie holding a skull, a man in a neon green hoodie turning away.

Curator's Note

Joshua Omoijiade sets a sombre scene in bright, happy colours: amid all the brightness and fads of life, death is always staring you in the…

Undeclared

Dinner Party

Yr. 2022

Joshua OmoijiadeJoshua O.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Painting of three musicians on purple: one in a green robe and turban with a gourd lute, one in a blue robe with a fiddle and bow, one in a red cap and black-and-gold top playing a flute.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Where ethnic sentiment is used to divide, Clement Obioha paints Nigeria's three largest peoples as one band: three instruments, three voice…

Igbo

Unity

Yr. 2018

Chibuike Clement ObiohaChibuike C. O.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Digital fashion illustration of a woman with pale curled hair, hands on her hips, in a chartreuse dress with a white collar; face and arms left as pencil sketch on dark grey.

STU. 59/60

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Curator'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…

Yoruba

80's Vibe

Yr. 2022

Adeyemo EkundayoAdeyemo E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Digital fashion illustration of three women in wide hats: at centre a figure in a yellow wing-panelled jacket and pleated skirt, flanked by one in black and silver and one in lavender.

COLL. 30/30

Curator'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…

Yoruba

Butterflies

Yr. 2022

Adeyemo EkundayoAdeyemo E.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Deep blue-black skin, a gold halo, heavy pearls at the throat, arms folded close. Dayo turns the figure away from us and lowers the eyes, a…

Yoruba

Black and Gold

Dayo Gerard AkindoyeniDayo G. A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Pencil-sketched portrait of a young man with a high-top haircut, chin raised and eyes glancing to the side, a vertical band of ochre light across his face, on a grey background.

COLL. 30/30

Curator'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…

Yoruba

Huh!

Yr. 2022

Adeyemo EkundayoAdeyemo E.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Painting of a woman in pink and purple tones with two afro puffs and a dark strapless top, glancing sideways beside a bright window against an orange wall.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Clement's feminist is a woman who builds the life of her dreams, carries a man's load and keeps a woman's kindness. He paints that double s…

Igbo

Feminist

Yr. 2024

Chibuike Clement ObiohaChibuike C. O.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black and yellow illustration of the National Theatre, Lagos, with its ribbed cap-shaped roof, a construction crane at left, a smiling yellow sun, a man walking and a white car in front.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

The building every Lagosian can draw from memory, its roof shaped like a general's cap, with a working crane standing beside it. Anth Ezeok…

Yoruba

National Theatre, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Digital illustration of a bearded man in a hoodie, cap and plaid jacket on a wooden stool, reading a book titled Na Man You Be, a yellow smiley card over his face, on a blue ground.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Look past the outfit to the face, or what replaces it. A yellow card with a drawn-on smile is stuck over a man reading his own rulebook. St…

Edo/Benin

Na Man You Be

Yr. 2022

Joshua AdegboyeJoshua A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. 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.

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.

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.

Find a work, an artist, a tradition

Dinner Party

Unity

80's Vibe

Butterflies

Black and Gold

Huh!

Feminist

National Theatre, Lagos

Na Man You Be

Idan

Oshodi, Lagos

Stronger Together