Search: 84 results found for "limited edition african art"

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.

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.

Long-exposure photograph of looping blue and pink light trails forming an open ring with a bright coiled knot near the centre, on a black background.

STU. 40/40

Curator's Note

Nothing in Alive is solid. A light passed through the dark again and again, and the camera kept every pass, blue shot through with pink. Fo…

Igbo

Alive

Fortune EzeFortune E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black-and-white illustration seen from above: flowing parallel lines, a round white platform with an oval pool, two people in swimwear walking, small figures and birds below, all with long shadows.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Seen from far above, a few tiny people cross a field of flowing black lines towards a pool on a raised white disc. Each trails a long shado…

Yoruba

Drank Pool

Samuel OladimejiSamuel O.

From$55· 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.

Square black-and-white illustration of two mirrored profiles facing outward, heavy brows and hatched marks under the eyes, large roundels above and a black diamond at the centre.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Janus 2 moves in close: two heavy-browed profiles fill the square, a hatched teardrop beneath each eye, a black diamond hanging where they …

Hausa

Janus 2

Ibrahim Buhari GamboIbrahim B. G.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Black-and-yellow illustration of a crowd walking toward the Lekki toll gate in Lagos, under a billboard reading #EndPoliceBrutality with raised fists, a yellow sun overhead.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Of all the Made in Lagos scenes, this one carries the most weight. Anth Ezeokoye honours the Lekki toll gate during EndSARS as a moment of …

Yoruba

Lekki Tollgate, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· 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.

Abstract geometric pattern on a white ground: a rectangular grid of squares filled with circles, rings, triangles and quarter-circles in sky blue, navy, red, yellow and black.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Look long enough and the noise resolves into order: the whole field is built to read the same upside down. Anth Ezeokoye's training as an a…

Igbo

Chill Vibes

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

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.

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.

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.

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

Black Mermaid

Alive

Drank Pool

Vignette

Janus 2

Lekki Tollgate, Lagos

Dinner Party

Chill Vibes

In Silk

Camouflage

Warrior Within

Nameless 001