Search: 84 results found for "African Diaspora art"

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

STU. 60/60

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.

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.

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.

Illustration of a woman with pale blonde curls and a red-tinted face glancing sideways, wearing a green dress with a wide white collar, a red brushstroke across a grey background.

STU. 60/60

Curator'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…

Yoruba

Miss White

Adeyemo EkundayoAdeyemo E.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration on rust red of a round blue mask face with six striped hair knots, cowrie shell earrings and an orange patterned comb as its body; a letter A and small copies in the corners.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

KeO turns a girl's name into a playing card. There is a looping A in the corners, a mask at the centre, and in place of a body, a comb. Abi…

Yoruba

Abike

Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel KomaiyaOluwatobiloba E. K.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Digital portrait of a young Black girl with a full afro and a small gold crown, blue eyes, surrounded by red, pink and violet fish in turquoise water.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

A fairy tale rewritten by someone it left out. Emmanuel's mermaid has an afro, a crown and an ocean that answers to her. For some children …

Undeclared

Black Mermaid

Yr. 2021

Emmanuel AbakahEmmanuel A.

From$55· 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.

Illustration of a hunched young man in a dark hoodie hugging himself, head bowed and trailing dark smoke with embers, as many hands reach toward him from a red sky; pale gold light at right.

STU. 19/20

Curator's Note

Precious Emeka Anih paints pressure from every side: a young man doubled over as hands reach in from a burning sky, his creative fire burni…

Igbo

Psalm 12

Precious Emeka AnihPrecious E. A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Find a work, an artist, a tradition

Vignette

Missus

National Theatre, Lagos

Black and Gold

Somebody

Camouflage

Oshodi, Lagos

Miss White

Abike

Black Mermaid

Offerings

Psalm 12