Njideka Akunyili Crosby uses a mix of collage, drawing and painting to create large-scale artworks with an emotive punch. The artist draws viewers into her works through details within acetone-transfer prints of small photographs takes from the internet and Crosby's own photographs, in addition to magazines and advertisements. The layers, patterns, and their varying degrees of transparency create dreamlike images that move in and out of reality. In this way, the works hint at the complexities of fantasy and actuality in everyday domestic life.
The artist's layered, tender paintings consider the history of being seen and touched by black women
Njideka Akunyili Crosby uses a mix of collage, drawing and painting to create large-scale artworks with an emotive punch. The artist draws viewers into her works through details within acetone-transfer prints of small photographs takes from the internet and Crosby's own photographs, in addition to magazines and advertisements. The layers, patterns, and their varying degrees of transparency create dreamlike images that move in and out of reality. In this way, the works hint at the complexities of fantasy and actuality in everyday domestic life.
CONTEMPORARY PROJECT Njideka Akunyili Crosby OPENS July 23, 2022 CLOSES December 4, 2022 SHARE About the Exhibit Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby has described her desire as an artist to “center Black life, my experience as a Black woman, and the complexity of Black life—and to infuse every piece I make with…this deep […]
The mixed media paintings of Njideka Akunyili Crosby portray domestic scenes with references to the composition of Dutch Golden Age artworks.
The artist's layered, tender paintings consider the history of being seen and touched by black women
A quiet revolution in painting is seeing artists reject large-scale, bombastic installations in favor of intimate subjects and techniques.
Christie's New York, May 17, 2017 - Lot 64B: NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY, I Refuse to be Invisible, 2010 (ink, charcoal, acrylic and transfers on paper, 117 3/4 x 82 inches). | Estimate $1.5 million-...
Njideka Akunyili Crosby was largely unknown until the Los Angeles-based Nigerian painter won a 2017 MacArthur fellowship. Join a visit to her studio as she debuts work in Baltimore, New Orleans and New York.
The mixed media paintings of Njideka Akunyili Crosby portray domestic scenes with references to the composition of Dutch Golden Age artworks.
The mixed media paintings of Njideka Akunyili Crosby portray domestic scenes with references to the composition of Dutch Golden Age artworks.
The artist’s gloriously collaged paintings celebrate the African diaspora and the intimacy of lives lived here, there, and in between.
SINCE 2014, Njideka Akunyili Crosby has been using her signature collage technique to make a series of portraits focused on Nigerian children, including her siblings in their yo...
Njideka Akunyili Crosby uses a mix of collage, drawing and painting to create large-scale artworks with an emotive punch. The artist draws viewers into her works through details within acetone-transfer prints of small photographs takes from the internet and Crosby's own photographs, in addition to magazines and advertisements. The layers, patterns, and their varying degrees of transparency create dreamlike images that move in and out of reality. In this way, the works hint at the complexities of fantasy and actuality in everyday domestic life.
Akunyili Crosby was born in Nigeria, where she lived until the age of sixteen. In 1999 she moved to the United States, where she has remained since that time. Her cultural identity combines strong attachments to the country of her birth and to her adopted home, a hybrid identity that is reflected in
Njideka Akunyili Crosby uses paint, pencil, collage and Xerox transfer techniques to render interior spaces where swaths of solid color meet contrastingly grainy cutouts. Her large-scale mixed-medium canvases thus assert a formal dichotomy that seems to parallel her dual identity as a Nigerian-American.
Christie's New York, May 17, 2017 - Lot 64B: NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY, I Refuse to be Invisible, 2010 (ink, charcoal, acrylic and transfers on paper, 117 3/4 x 82 inches). | Estimate $1.5 million-...
Njideka Akunyili Crosby's work celebrates her hybrid identity as a Nigerian artist living and working in America.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby was largely unknown until the Los Angeles-based Nigerian painter won a 2017 MacArthur fellowship. Join a visit to her studio as she debuts work in Baltimore, New Orleans and New York.
A rising art star living between two continents
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The mixed media paintings of Njideka Akunyili Crosby portray domestic scenes with references to the composition of Dutch Golden Age artworks.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby uses a mix of collage, drawing and painting to create large-scale artworks with an emotive punch. The artist draws viewers into her works through details within acetone-transfer prints of small photographs takes from the internet and Crosby's own photographs, in addition to magazines and advertisements. The layers, patterns, and their varying degrees of transparency create dreamlike images that move in and out of reality. In this way, the works hint at the complexities of fantasy and actuality in everyday domestic life.
SINCE 2014, Njideka Akunyili Crosby has been using her signature collage technique to make a series of portraits focused on Nigerian children, including her siblings in their yo...
If you haven't yet heard the name Njideka Akunyili Crosby, then you haven't been paying attention, as her phenomenal work is on a meteoric rise.
