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 […]
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-...
The artist's layered, tender paintings consider the history of being seen and touched by black women
The artist’s gloriously collaged paintings celebrate the African diaspora and the intimacy of lives lived here, there, and in between.
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.
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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-...
Mixed media paintings by artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby. More images below.
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A rising art star living between two continents
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 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.
The artist’s gloriously collaged paintings celebrate the African diaspora and the intimacy of lives lived here, there, and in between.
The mixed media paintings of Njideka Akunyili Crosby portray domestic scenes with references to the composition of Dutch Golden Age artworks.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby's work celebrates her hybrid identity as a Nigerian artist living and working in America.
A rising art star living between two continents
With two museum shows opening this fall, Njideka Akunyili Crosby shares how she makes a painting, from inspiration to execution.
