Exposition Art Blog: Nigerian artist
Showing posts with label Nigerian artist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nigerian artist. Show all posts

Ehigbai Michael Ozoya

Ehigbai Michael Ozoya is a mixed media Nigerian based fine artist that has a huge flair for drawing, inspired by nature and every day circumstances which are untold stories undocumented. Ehigbai works with charcoal, pastel,oil, acrylic and models with clay employing a semi realistic and geometric patterns approach, using the effect of extreme light and dark (chiaroscuro) to connotes emphasis on his work of art.
1. Priceless jewel: an art work celebrating the traditional ceremonial dressing of Bini women, charcoal and pastel.
2. Virago, the brave look of a determined woman, charcoal and pastel.
3. One amongst many, it used to be availability of water and food that made people settle in a place but the world today, its the economic value of a place that draws settlement to it, oil colour
4. Shades of womanhood, the artwork shows the dark, bright and colourful side of a woman, charcoal and oil on canvas.
5. Window to the soul, the unexplained connection of the woman to procreation and beyond, Charcoal and pastel.







Akan David

Akan David "explores traditional painting using surrealism, sgraffito, chromolumism (pointillism) . His works are Mostly with multiple pictorial units, elaborate and high embellished motifs and african traditonal codes like the "Nsibidi" sometimes amalgamating them with mystical and esoteric symbols all encoded in a picture."









 

Akan David

Akan David - is an Enigmatic African Artist , currently residing in Nigeria his works ofart thrives mainly on Afro-Cultural, spiritual,
psychological issues,mythological tales, sensuality and folklores.
Although having multi-techniques in art he predominantly explores traditional painting using surrealism, sgraffito, chromolumism (pointillism) . His works are Mostly with multiple pictorial units, elaborate and high embellished motifs and african traditonal codes like the "Nsibidi" sometimes amalgamating them with mystical and esoteric symbols all encoded in a picture.









Osaro Osula

Subject model is Genevieve Nnaji, Nigerian actress whom struggled as a young single mother to greater success.
This piece is to encourage other single mothers and preach gender equality


Bravura
Graphite Pencils and White Pastel on Cathridge Paper
H16 x W10.9 in inches
Feb 2015

Symmetrical
Charcoal Pencils on gray cardboard
H15 x W14 1/2 in inches
2015

Love in a Strange Place
Black and Red Ballpoint Pen on Cardboard
H23 1/2 x W16 in inches
14th Feb 2015

The Sniper
Blue Ballpoint Pen BIC on Cardboard
H24 x W16 in inches
2015


Ben Enwonwu


Odinigwe Benedict Chukwukadibia Bonaventure Enwonwu (14 July 1917 – 5 February 1994)was a premier African modernist and a pioneer who is better known as Ben Enwonwu. He was an Igbo Nigerian painter and sculptor. He is a pioneer whose career opened the way for the postcolonial proliferation and increased visibility of modern African art. His work has been exhibited around the world. The Enwonwu crater on the planet Mercury is named in his honour.Wikipedia








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