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