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2023 Winter Artwork Lookbook sneak peek
Published by Urevbu Contemporary
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VIdeo - Jimmy Nwanne featured at the 2019 Florence Biennale
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INTRODUCING DOUDOU MBEMBA
Driven to AbstractionArtist Statement
Doudou’s energetic paintings are a revelation in texture and color as he explores themes of identity and community, immigration and migration, technology and mechanization. In Doudou’s most recent work, he was inspired to rebuild the human form out of mechanical devices. He has an affinity for experimenting with different media on canvas, from the more traditional oil and acrylic paints rendered with brush and palette knife to playful paper collaging and mixed media. Depicting his subjects in textures that mimic metal, wood, and packaging materials, Doudou’s compositions evoke sensations of splintering and fracturing.
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AVAILABLE ARTWORK
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Johnson Uwadinma
Recent artworkNigerian artist Johnson Uwadinma holds an MA in Painting from the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria. He has exhibited his work internationally in both Africa and Europe. Africa on My Mind marks his debut exhibition in the United States. Uwadinma’s paintings are characterized by stylized human figures whose bodies are formed from dynamic colors, patterns, and symbols. Set against backgrounds of fractured text inspired by historic newsprint, Uwadinma’s compositions consider the body in relation to social and political events. He is especially attentive to the phenomenon of memory and its capacity to shape historical and social narratives. In Uwadinma’s bold paintings, the body is a reservoir of powerful memories.
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Watch artist Johnson Uwadinma in studio
Port Harcourt, NigeriaAlluring and enigmatic, Uwadinma’s vibrant compositions are brimming with texture and pattern. His paintings present stylized human figures set against colorful, intentionally repetitive backdrops of fractured text. Through bold forms and intriguing symbols, he contemplates memory and history and how both may powerfully shape narratives. In Uwadinma’s paintings, the body is a site upon which centuries of social and political history are inscribed.
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Birhane Worede
Birhane Worede dynamic figurative paintings are kinetic and lively. His work is imbued with a strong sense of movement consistent with his background in contemporary dance. Describing his practice as “psychology in visual form,” for Woledeyesus painting is a reflective process. As a child artmaking was a way to escape to other worlds, today painting is the way he contends with the world around him. Woledeyesus lives and works in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He graduated from Addis Ababa University’s Ale School of Fine Arts with highest honors in painting in 2021. Black Soliloquy marks Woledeyesus’s debut exhibition outside of his home country.
