FashionAFRICANA Takes On 1-54
If there’s one thing FashionAFRICANA loves more than curating masterpieces, it’s admiring them. This past weekend FashionAFRICANA visited the beautiful 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in New York. The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is the leading art fair that is dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. I am proud to share FashionAFRICANA’s top ten highlights with you from the 1-54 art fair, I hope you enjoy!
1.) Cedric Mizero
Cedric Mizero is a Rwandan visual artist and storyteller with a strong relationship to nature, culture, and people. He was FashionAFRICANA’s 2022 Artist-in-Residence which culminated in an exhibition of his work at the Frick Museum.
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“Blue Jacket”
2.) Emma Odumade
Emma Odumade is a Nigerian artist whose work centers on hyper realistic drawings that explore notions of identity and the social constructs of beauty and power.
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“Déjà Vu ; Girl in Space, 2021”
3.) Grace Lynn Haynes
Grace Lynn Haynes is a California born visual artist whose works comprises lusciously composed paintings, featuring textures and patterns.
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“A Misunderstanding, 2022”
4.) Larry Amponsah
Larry Amponsah is a multimedia artist whose practice investigates traditional modes of image-making while employing unconventional strategies of production to look at the contemporary politics of imagery.
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“I seem to See Once Again, 2023”
5.) Lulama Wolf
Lulama Wolf interrogates the pre-colonial African experience through the contemporary mind by using smearing, scraping, and deep pigment techniques that were used in vernacular architecture, and patterns created largely by women to decorate traditional African homes.
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“Is this still life? IV (amandla amakhulu), 2022”
6.) Ozioma Onuzulike
Ozioma Onuzulike is a ceramics artist, poet and historian of African art and design whose studio work has largely focused on the historical and sociological roots of the political and socio-economic turmoil in Africa and their debilitating effects on daily living on the continent.
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“Royal Skirt, 2022”
7.) Saïdou Dicko
Saïdou Dicko is a self-taught visual artist (photographer, videographer, installer and painter).
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“Recycling Princess Yatch Act2,T FEUILLES D'oRed, 2023”
8.) Djeneba Aduayom
Djeneba Aduayom is a self-taught artist whose work is marked by a sense of movement, performance, and personal interrogation.
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“Alienation 2018”
9.) Werllayne Nunes
Werllayne Nunes is a self-taught painter from Goiás, Brazil whose work is deeply informed by his years living in Brazil, Europe, and the United States, and how structural racism operates in racially diverse societies.
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“Muito Sol, Muitas Luas, 2009”
10.) Ronald Hall
Ronald Hall is a Pittsburgh native who shifts between fiction and nonfiction in his narrative paintings to create otherworldly spaces in which figures engage in and reflect upon the past, present, and future.
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“Cataclysmic Negritude, 2023”
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