Search: 55 results found for "Anthony Ezeokoye"

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.

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.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

A woman's head floats a hand's width above her shoulders and casts its own shadow. Clement Obioha turns the caricaturist's instinct inward,…

Igbo

Monologue

Chibuike Clement ObiohaChibuike C. O.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. 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.

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.

STU. 60/60

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.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

For Yeko, the mask is where a people and their gods meet. Source draws a face in profile built entirely from pattern, cowries, eyes and wav…

Ugandan

Source

Marjory Yeko JewittMarjory Y. J.

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.

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.

Black-and-white illustration of a pregnant woman with eyes closed, one arm raised to balance a tall patterned vessel on her head, large flowers and a small bird beside her, on a black ground.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Yeko calls her son her Sun, and this is a picture of carrying one. A pregnant woman balances a tall patterned vessel on her head, eyes clos…

Ugandan

Under My Sun

Marjory Yeko JewittMarjory Y. J.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. 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.

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.

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 of a green mask-like face with blue eyelids, red beaded locs, tongue out and a star by the nose, purple spikes around it, set like a playing card with a red M in the corners on ochre.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

KeO calls her a mask depicting the beauty of a young lady. He then gives her a tongue stuck out at the viewer and a star for a beauty mark.…

Yoruba

Mojisola

Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel KomaiyaOluwatobiloba E. K.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

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Feminist

Monologue

Huh!

Warrior Within

Source

Butterflies

Offerings

Under My Sun

Shindara

Missus

Miss White

Mojisola