Search: 84 results found for "Pan-African Contemporary"

Digital illustration of three dancers in red, teal and cream patterned bodysuits with white sashes, pale tiered fringe on the legs and blue blooms with plumes in their hair; one raises an arm.

Curator's Note

In Nigeria, a celebration has not begun until someone dances. Ekundayo catches three dancers at its height, faces left in soft pencil, the …

Yoruba

The Dance

Yr. 2022

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bold black calligraphy reading 'Dear God when I forget remind me that I am Loved' on white, with 'Loved' largest, framed by green leaves and orange tropical flowers, and a small red heart.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Watch the last word swell until it nearly fills the page. Loved is a prayer for ordinary days, when the noise gets in. Anth Ezeokoye letter…

Undeclared

Loved

Yr. 2022

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black ink line drawing of a tall woman in a headwrap and long garment holding a staff, walking through water patterned with circles, with mountains, a field of crops, a wavy sky and a round moon.

LTD. 15/15

Curator's Note

Yeko calls it a spiritual journey of self discovery and growth. Her tall, unhurried woman walks through water drawn as a field of circles. …

Ugandan

River Journey

Marjory Yeko JewittMarjory Y. J.

From$450· Limited Edition· Ltd. Ed.

Faceted portrait of an elderly Black man with white hair and beard, lips slightly parted, wearing a gold hoop earring and gold chain, his red shirt merging into a flat red background.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Dayo made his old man for the elders he grew up around, the quiet ones who have seen a lot and carry it with dignity. White beard against a…

Yoruba

Old Man Red

Yr. 2024

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 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.

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 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.

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The Dance

Mojisola

Light as a Feather

Abike

Somebody

Loved

River Journey

Old Man Red

Huh!

Unity

Missus

Shindara