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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Akunyili Crosby, Njideka
Molesworth, Helen
Das, Jareh

Hardcover

American Art - African American & BlackGeneral ArtIndividual Artists

Publisher Price: $80.00

ISBN10: 1644231387
ISBN13: 9781644231388
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
Published: May 13 2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 3.61
Height: 1.18 Width: 9.29 Depth: 11.50
Language: English
The first monograph on the internationally celebrated Nigerian American painter who blends her personal history and African diasporic identity in layered compositions

Critics have often (and rightly) marveled at the care and finesse with which Akunyili Crosby assembles vast multiplicities of time and place into singular sites of visual contestation. --Frieze

Njideka Akunyili Crosby's work unites multiple places and temporalities, reflecting both personal and universal dimensions of contemporary life and, in particular, the intricacies of the African diasporic identity. This first monograph on Akunyili Crosby brings together nearly fifty paintings, made from 2010 to 2023, that chart her methodical practice of layering painted representations of people, locales, and aspects of her own experiences with transferred images sourced from her personal collection, Nigerian publications, and other outlets. Akunyili Crosby reveals and revisits distinct realms, from lush gardens to domestic, interior worlds related to motherhood, family, marriage, the body, and personal identity.

New texts from Jareh Das, Helen Molesworth, Jason Rosenfeld, and Drew Thompson focus on a range of themes in Akunyili Crosby's work, including her visual language and material practice, her mixing of Western and Nigerian imagery and forms, and her use of photography in portraiture and figuration.

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