Comprising three new paintings made on sanyan, an Aso-oke fabric traditionally crafted by the Yoruba people, Omuku’s work will be suspended within the booth so visitors can view the works in the round, thereby experiencing both the artist’s painting and the handspun quality of the cloth that is so integral to its meaning. The presentation immediately follows Omuku’s first solo institutional …
Comprising three new paintings made on sanyan, an Aso-oke fabric traditionally crafted by the Yoruba people, Omuku’s work will be suspended within the booth so visitors can view the works in the round, thereby experiencing both the artist’s painting and the handspun quality of the cloth that is so integral to its meaning. The presentation immediately follows Omuku’s first solo institutional exhibition, The Dance of the People and the Natural World at Hastings Contemporary and Arnolfini, and is co-organized by Kasmin, New York and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London.
Omuku’s new paintings …
