Her art draws inspiration from photography textiles architecture and print making.
Ruby onyinyechi amanze art.
Mutu in particular was the first contemporary reference that showed me a woman of african descent can make it in the art world.
Ruby onyinyechi amanze using the medium of drawing as a mode of inquiry in a world inhabited by aliens hybrids or ghosts.
Ruby onyinyechi amanze born 1982 is a brooklyn based nigerian british artist noted for drawings and works on paper which focus on cultural hybridity or post colonial non nationalism in addition to being an artist she has also worked as a teacher and curator.
Ruby onyinyechi amanze s hybrid drawings at frieze new york.
Ruby onyinyechi amanze is a visual artist whose practice is primarily centered around drawing and works on paper.
Amanze is invested in the cross cultural communicative.
Ruby onyinyechi amanze the ones that stayed online viewing room may 20 to june 10 2020.
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The artist creates nonlinear narratives in her drawings imagining alien beings inhabiting foreign landscapes.
66 5 x 74 inches.
The conversation was preceded by a live performance between ruby amanze and wura natasha ogunji.
We are unnamed but the loveliest.
The exhibition ruby onyinyechi amanze.
Certain characters make regular appearances in your drawings like the astronaut and the leopard man.
How did you come up with these figures and how would you describe their interaction.
They have evolved since then but mostly maintain a consistent form.
The beginning and the beginnings parallel.
This is an edited transcription of my conversation with ruby onyinyechi amanze at tiwani contemporary 21 february 2015.
Part ii hello ada and audre.
In parts runs through to 28 march 2015.
The figures initially came about between 2012 and 2013 while i was in nigeria.
She ll always hold that place of honor for me and no doubt for many others too.
2 of 17 swimming pools divers 2020 ink photo transfers graphite gouache acrylic on paper.
In her mixed media drawings ruby onyinyechi amanze who was born in nigeria grew up in the united kingdom and now lives in brooklyn meditates on hybridity and displacement.