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拍品專文
ruby onyinyechi amanze has worked exclusively on paper since 2012. Principally using graphite, pigment and ink, she focuses on concepts of displacement and cultural hybridity. A master draughtswoman, amanze creates strange and beautiful universes populated by leopards, astronauts and divers. Her figures appear to float through time and space across the picture plane: amanze’s use of negative space give her work a sense of purity, and her complex, non-linear narratives are suffused with clean, harmonious aesthetics.
Hybrids, aliens and ghosts demonstrates amanze’s integration of different materials using graphite ink, enamel as well as dye transfer. Supernatural figures drift across an alien landscape. Time and space appears to warped and suspended. In spite of their bizarre nature, the figures are harmonious and the universe is visually arresting, even playful.
Born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, amanze grew up between The United Kingdom and Nigeria, and currently lives and works in Philadelphia. In 2019, she was awarded the accolade of Deutsche Bank featured artist at Frieze New York. amanze was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholars Award in Drawing at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, as well as becoming an Open Sessions participant at the Drawing Center, New York; and an artist-in-residence at the Queens Museum, New York. She has exhibited her work globally including at the California African American Museum, the Drawing Center, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Hybrids, aliens and ghosts demonstrates amanze’s integration of different materials using graphite ink, enamel as well as dye transfer. Supernatural figures drift across an alien landscape. Time and space appears to warped and suspended. In spite of their bizarre nature, the figures are harmonious and the universe is visually arresting, even playful.
Born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, amanze grew up between The United Kingdom and Nigeria, and currently lives and works in Philadelphia. In 2019, she was awarded the accolade of Deutsche Bank featured artist at Frieze New York. amanze was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholars Award in Drawing at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, as well as becoming an Open Sessions participant at the Drawing Center, New York; and an artist-in-residence at the Queens Museum, New York. She has exhibited her work globally including at the California African American Museum, the Drawing Center, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.