On October 1st, Thinkspace Initiatives will open a bunch display, Views, that includes the works of Zeinab Diomande, Ayobola Kekere-Ekun, Chigozie Obi and Bianca Walker.
Born in 1999, in Virginia (USA) Zeinab Diomande (aka Z the Rat) left Abidjan (Ivory Coast), the place she spent her adolescence and formative years, to pursue her college research in Philadelphia (USA) in 2017. The artist explores the theme of psychological well being and her revel in as a black lady. Those issues mark out and feed her heat and colourful international. Adapting what already exists and reinventing it in some way that still shapes a brand new fact is the principle focal point of this expression. Diomandé is these days learning on the College of the Arts, pursuing a BFA in Superb Arts with a focus in portray and drawing.
Chigozie Obi (b. 1997) is a multi-dimensional visible artist. Her paintings explores experimentation with more than one fabrics to inform tales shaped from non-public/societal stories. Obi’s paintings authenticates her willing hobby for the human side of existence, the frame, attractiveness requirements and the attempt for self-acceptance. She objectives to create sustained conversations about other people and society – the cultural narratives followed and the way it impacts other people in it, particularly girls. Chigozie’s new collection ‘A Seat On the Desk’ showcases girls operating in several occupations, lots of which might be nonetheless believed or anticipated to be jobs for males on my own however they proceed to turn out that improper. ‘A Seat on the Desk’ illustrates girls of various careers. From low source of revenue jobs to the top earners – it seeks to honor girls operating in all occupational fields, appearing them of their part, taking pictures their tales, highlighting the difficulties they may well be going through whilst operating in the ones occupations and extra.
Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Ayobola Kekere-Ekun is a modern visible artist who makes an attempt to resolve the connections between the self and id and the way they interface with particular person and collective reminiscence by means of her artwork. In developing the artwork that make up this frame of labor, she toys with probably the most healthy of concepts/stories: adolescence. Apparently random and benign scenes of lifestyles are shadowed by way of items that grow to be breadcrumbs of the artist’s makes an attempt to know her personal trauma and past.
Bianca Walker is a 24-year-old, nonbinary, painter from the Bay Space, California. Bianca used to be raised surrounded by way of colourful side road artwork till gentrification started to ravage where they as soon as referred to as house, leaving coloured partitions naked. Walker migrated to Louisiana and started their research at rambling State College the place they have been submerged in portray and black historical past. As their schooling persisted, they briefly grew uninterested in conventional artwork strategies and started to make use of a drip portray method that displays their side road artwork roots. Now creating an MFA thesis on the College of New Orleans, Walker makes use of those drips as an integral a part of their visible language whilst incorporating archival imagery of the African Diaspora activating a historical past they are able to see being erased.