Your dose of African Goodness
Art is an emotional subject and for Joseph, using something that most conveys emotion works for him. I first saw his work at “From Eko With Love” art exhibition held sometime last year. I was drawn by…
I cannot deny my slight obsession with Mode’s art. If i were to splurge on an artwork, it would be hers. Her 2014 campaign was done in collaboration with the widely known Nigerian makeup brand, House…
Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series (1940–41) is a sequence of 60 paintings that depicts the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North between World War I and World War II—a development that…
This year, www.blackfabulousity.com has been out and about discovering more on everything from fashion, through art and photography: collating favorites from awesome collections to the art pieces I want hanging on my wall. I’ve rounded up…
Dawn Okoro is a Nigerian American artist whose paintings features bold, color saturated, sensual portraits of beautiful black women. The theme of her work embodies one’s search for identity through brands and trends with images depicting young…
We don’t see much of street art in Africa, so when we came across some photos of art on the walls of villages in Gambia, we were precisely drawn. Tagged as ‘wide open walls’, the photos…
Rather amusing, the truths in these exhibits. French designer, Jean Jullien created a series of humorous critique on modern society. With light and fun illustrations he plays with social relations issues of our day to day in…
Lionel Smit is a self-taught artist born in Pretoria, South Africa, best known for his contemporary portraiture executed through monumental canvasses and sculptures. These portraits seem to tell a tale of emotional strife … the haphazard…
My love for Illustrations run deep, ignited a while back when I hopelessly stalked one who’s now on my list of favorite illustrators. I discovered Peniel sometime in between late last year and early this year, an…
Karo Akpokiere is a Nigerian born and based artist whose work is set a little apart from the conventional oil on canvas. He displays his drawings and illustrations through various media, T-shirts being one of my…
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is Iranian African-American oil painter whose street art project addressing gender based street harassment drew me to further explore her works. Inspired by many things: the distress and injustices that people around the world continue…
If there is anything i appreciate as much as art itself, its the people that create it. Sara Golish who is Canadian born fuels her talent mostly into creating African art. Since putting pencil to…
Find the brilliant Artist… and good writer as well(You all should read her blog), Twitter: @Wierd_oo Blog: Phantom Pages
Artist Vigilism and men’s wear designer Ikiré Jones collaborate to create paradise, an “Escape to New Lagos.” New Makoko Village [Lagos 2081 A.D.] These pieces tell a story of an imagining of Lagos in the year 2081 A.D. The Great…
Work Shirt Tim Okamura is one who investigates identity, the urban environment, and contemporary iconography through a unique method of painting – one that combines an essentially academic approach to the figure with collage, spray…