About

Adiskidan Ambaye was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she lived until sixteen. Ambaye would then move first to Frankfurt in Germany to study, before moving again four years later to Minnesota to study fine art at MCAD, specializing in furniture design.

For Adiskidan Ambaye, sculpture and drawing are deeply interwoven. The abstract sculptures she produces are nearly always preceded by gestural two-dimensional drawings, which delineate the foundations for her three-dimensional compositions.

The wooden sculptures appear moulded from a single block of wood but are actually composed of as …