Sentences with phrase «cultural hybridity as»

Born in Nigeria, relocated to the UK; centered solely in drawing; large - scale drawings explore the malleability of space, politics of play, and cultural hybridity as a new nation; awards include Fulbright Scholar Award in Drawing to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (2012 — 2013); participates in the Drawing Center's Open Sessions Program; Queens Museum artist - in - residence.

Not exact matches

From the influences of African art on the Modernist forms of artists like Picasso, to the work of contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Ellen Gallagher and Chris Ofili, the exhibition will map out visual and cultural hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the journeys made by people of Black African descent.

But in today's economy, the gallerist as cultural entrepreneur and arbiter exercises a professional hybridity far removed from Kahnweiler's day.

Haji Omar has long used artwork to explore sociopolitical subjects such as cultural hybridity and the transformation of language, and to visually address philosophical and physiological challenges of the human condition.

Working across installation, sculpture, and photography, Accra - based German / Ghanaian artist Zohra Opoku often incorporates textile and design - based elements to explore the traditions of West Africa, as well as the politics of her cultural hybridity.

I'm really interested in hybridity from a cultural perspective, but I chose to focus on inter-species hybridization because I didn't want it to be merely about the fusion and mixture of culture, but also about the transparency of boundaries between things we identify as whole in and of themselves.

By this time, of course, the transatlantic trade had already urged the transmission of black cultures around the western world, creating the instances of what would later be called «cultural hybridity,» occurring as a direct result of slavery and its legacies.

Wolf writes that, «Thomas wants to build his own take on the subject by combining... images, riffing on this idea of racial, cultural, and socioeconomic hybridity...» [Note: I revisit hybridity as polyculturalism on the Art21 blog.]