Search: 84 results found for "Egyptian Cultural Art"

Curator's Note

Her eyes are closed, and that changes everything. She is not surveying a court; she is somewhere inward, chin lifted, a queen with no need …

Yoruba

Queendom

Toni KuyinuToni K.

From$45· 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.

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.

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.

Illustration on green of a round mask face with a red fringe, two red buns, heavy-lidded blue eyes, tongue out, blue comb-shaped earrings and a red bead loop; letter S and small copies in corners.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

The cheekiest of KeO's named cards: lashes lowered, tongue out, and a pair of combs hung at her ears as earrings. He takes the humblest too…

Yoruba

Shindara

Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel KomaiyaOluwatobiloba E. K.

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.

Illustration of an angular orange mask-like face with heavy-lidded eyes glancing sideways, scalloped pattern on the cheeks, blue planes under brow and chin, before two overlapping pale suns.

STU. 20/20

Curator'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…

Igbo

Introspection

Yr. 2023

Michael C. EkenobiMichael C. E.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

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.

STU. 20/20

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.

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.

Grey-toned portrait of a girl with two afro puffs holding a white feather vertically over half her face, eyes closed, a gold ring around one eye and gold marks on her lip and shoulders.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Toni Kuyinu's gold usually crowns kings and queens. Here it rings the closed eye of a girl holding a single white feather to her face. It i…

Yoruba

Light as a Feather

Toni KuyinuToni K.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black-and-white illustration in playing-card format: two mirrored profiles facing outward, a central flower, crowned birds, roundels, sunburst rays and corner rosettes.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Two faces in profile, back to back, and a flower opening exactly between them. Ibrahim gives the Roman god of doorways a playing-card symme…

Hausa

Janus 1

Ibrahim Buhari GamboIbrahim B. G.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Line illustration of an abstracted face on yellow: one closed blue eye, one open purple eye, a third eye on the brow, patterned blue fingers from the top and a purple triangle.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Count the eyes: one closed, one open, one at the brow with a spiral for a pupil. Godwin removes the name from the face on purpose, so what …

Undeclared

Nameless 001

Yr. 2021

Godwin Edet MunamGodwin E. M.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Find a work, an artist, a tradition

Queendom

Vignette

Missus

Stronger Together

Shindara

In Silk

Introspection

Dinner Party

Camouflage

Light as a Feather

Janus 1

Nameless 001