Month: August 2020

IN CELEBRATION OF BRUCE ONOBRAKPEYA’S CREATIVE RESOURCEFULNESS

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As the activities marking his 60th year in the exhibition circuit trails into a second year, the highly-revered Nigerian artist, Bruce Onobrakpeya, celebrates his 88th birthday anniversary. Okechukwu Uwaezuoke reports LEGENDS Not much has changed in this cluttered ground-floor recess. At the end of the reception room, the long-familiar installation work still denies visitors access …

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WITH ART, AZEEZ SALAMI HOPEFULLY LOOKS FORWARD TO THE FUTURE

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Like an obsession, Azeez Salami works tirelessly to launch himself into the artistic limelight. His modest efforts have paid off in a few ways, he tells Okechukwu Uwaezuoke ART-LOGUE Possibly, the artist intended the sidelong glance of the young woman in this 61cm x 41cm oil on canvas painting, titled “My Struggle”, to be an …

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IN THESE COVID-19 TIMES, LIMCAF REMAINS RESILIENT

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With its plan to move its selection process and exhibitions online, the Life In My City Art Festival is set through wade through the pandemic storm. Okechukwu Uwaezuoke reports ARTICLES A cautionary obtrusion into the local art scene – at a time the latter gradually stirred back to life – earned the COVID-19 pandemic the …

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ART, FOR FRANCIS DAVID, IS ALL ABOUT ASSERTING INDIVIDUALITY

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Recently evolving a peculiar artistic identity, for Francis Oshorenoya David, is a major career turning point. Okechukwu Uwaezuoke reports ART-LOGUE Acrylic, Francis Oshorenoya David, discovered that day is a difficult medium to manage. Unlike oil, the water-soluble – yet water-resistant – and fast-drying paint, made of pigment suspended in an acrylic polymer emulsion, does not …

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WITH BALLPOINT PENS, MOSES OYELEYE KEEPS IT REAL

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Even in his early childhood years, Moses Oyeleye has always known that art would be his lifetime vocation, he tells Okechukwu Uwaezuoke ART-LOGUE Just the fact of being allowed to use ballpoint pens for the first time meant so much to Moses Oyeleye. Back then, as a Primary Three pupil of the Fresh Myrtle International …

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