Our midweek Art Focus is on an artist new to AM – Nigerian-born, American artist Toyin Odutola. Using only pen and ink on paper, the tools of her trade create a novel look to her portraits which explore ideas of race and refers to skin as geography and terrain where she uses to draw on their individualities and experiences. She is currently in a group show at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico entitled Afro: Black Identity in America and Brazil “highlighting work by three Afro Brazilian artists and three African American artists who have been invited to create lithographs exploring the complexities of racial identity in Brazil and the United States.” Look for a solo from her in April of 2013 in New York at the Jack Shainman Gallery.
Via Designboom.
