Search: 84 results found for "Contemporary Nigerian art"

Digital illustration of a bearded man in a hoodie, cap and plaid jacket on a wooden stool, reading a book titled Na Man You Be, a yellow smiley card over his face, on a blue ground.

Curator's Note

Look past the outfit to the face, or what replaces it. A yellow card with a drawn-on smile is stuck over a man reading his own rulebook. St…

Edo/Benin

Na Man You Be

Yr. 2022

Joshua AdegboyeJoshua A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Of Toni Kuyinu's three royals, only the king keeps his eyes open, and he wears round wire glasses. A thoroughly modern young man, crowned w…

Yoruba

Kingdom

Toni KuyinuToni K.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Pen-and-ink drawing of a scowling lion with a wild mane hanging in mid-air, lifted by a single balloon tied with a bow and four thin strings, on a mottled beige stained background.

STU. 59/60

Curator's Note

A single balloon, four strings, and a lion who clearly disagrees. Anth Ezeokoye turns the Igbo proverb Onye kwe, chi ya ekwe into a deadpan…

Igbo

Limitless

Yr. 2022

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· 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-and-white ink illustration: block characters at top, the kanji 神 at left, a hand with contour-line skin sprouting leaves from waves, an eye below and a ribbon reading 'you go see shege'.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Heiwa is Japanese for peace, and Ezeh crowns the drawing with heavy block characters above a hand rising out of swirling waves. Then a ribb…

Undeclared

Heiwa

Eze Divine FavourEze D. F.

From$45· 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.

Abstract digital artwork of a pale glowing circle crossed by a thin horizontal white line, surrounded by dark torn textures, peach shapes and streaks of rainbow colour on a gradient ground.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Everything here pulls toward the pale circle at the centre, and one thin white line cuts straight through it. That line, Aiyedogbon says, i…

Yoruba

Vortex

Yr. 2023

Mayowa Enoch AiyedogbonMayowa E. A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Monochrome portrait of a young Black man, eyes closed, wearing a gold crown among grey roses, with gold marks beneath one eye and a gold line down his lips and chin.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

The centrepiece of Toni Kuyinu's royal trio, and the only face that meets us head-on, yet his eyes are closed. Nothing is being claimed or …

Yoruba

Crown

Toni KuyinuToni K.

From$45· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration of many hands in pale grey, brown and black reaching toward a central red hand, with a glowing lilac butterfly on its fingertip, over a red square on a grey ground.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Pale, brown and near-black hands reach in from every side, and the butterfly settles on the fingertip of a hand painted red. Ezeh gives the…

Undeclared

We Are Different But Very Much The Same

Eze Divine FavourEze D. F.

From$45· 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.

Dense black-and-white line drawing of a young woman with spiral-patterned hair and a decorated pot on her head, beside a tall staff, in a landscape of hills and fields drawn in flowing parallel lines.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

Yeko builds sky, hills and girl from one rhythm of strokes, until it is hard to tell where the young woman ends and the earth begins.

Ugandan

Village Girl

Marjory Yeko JewittMarjory Y. J.

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.

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Na Man You Be

Kingdom

Limitless

Loved

Heiwa

Nameless 001

Vortex

Crown

We Are Different But Very Much The Same

Janus 2

Village Girl

Light as a Feather