Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Predecessors

Publisher: Tang Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati

Publication Date: 2019

Edited by Ian Berry and Steven Matijcio. Interview by Ian Berry. Essays by Malik Gaines and Steven Matijcio

Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Predecessors unites works from the artist’s Predecessors series. Investigating the confluences, contact zones, and third spaces of culture, Akunyili Crosby represents the people and places closest to her: the women of her family, her partner, the interiors of her grandmother’s home and her own. Even in the midst of such personal themes, Akunyili Crosby opens these painted worlds to her viewers, and invites them to reflect upon their own experiences, memories, and emotions.

Details

Publisher: Tang Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati

Artist: Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Contributors: Ian Berry, Steven Matijcio, Malik Gaines, Steven Matijcio

Publication Date: 2019

ISBN: 9780998242200

Retail: $20 | £15.5 | €18.5

Status: Not Available

Designer: Beverly Joel / pulp, ink.

Printer: Conti Tipocolor, Italy

Dimensions: 7 x 9 1/4 in | 17.5 x 23.5 cm

Pages: 80

Reproductions: 30 color

Artist and Contributors

Njideka Akunyili Crosby

In her methodically layered compositions, Njideka Akunyili Crosby (b. 1983) combines painted depictions of people, places, and subjects from her life with photographic transfers derived from her personal image archive as well as Nigerian magazines and other mass media sources. The resulting works are visual tapestries that vivify the personal and social dimensions of contemporary life while evocatively expressing the intricacies of African diasporic identity.

Ian Berry

Steven Matijcio

Malik Gaines

Steven Matijcio

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