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                                                NJIDEKA AKUNYILI 
                                                an exciting new artist we would like you to discover also

"(CNN) -- Njideka Akunyili started college planning to be a doctor, but left as an artist and is now billed as one of New York's most promising new talents.

The 29-year-old Nigerian-born artist has just completed a year-long residence with the prestigious Studio Harlem in New York.

All five of her works sold in the first half hour of this year's Art Basel, the world's top fair for modern and contemporary art and African style magazine Arise described her as "fast becoming the art world's newest star." See more......

THE THING AROUND HIS NECK   BY NJIDEKA AKUNYILI                    from google image for educational purposes only

Njideka is an interesting artist for many reasons.  She is Nigerian born, sought to be a doctor, but chose to be an artist instead, and studied at the Harlem School of Art in a rich tradition of artists who came before her. Her work is an interesting mixture of transfers, charcoal, paper and painting.  
One cannot help but think of Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden when looking at her work and......She handles collage in a much similar fashion in her use of large dominate shapes, rich texturing of image, and handling of complex social issues in a bold, yet simple, presentation.  
Lets look at Lawrence and Bearden's work and see if you can see the similarities and influence.

Romare Bearden Collage                    google image for educational uses

Jacob Lawrence Painting and Collage
google image educational use 

BE AN ARTIST TODAY!

TODAY IS A DAY TO DO ART, TO BE AN ARTIST, TO THINK LIKE AN ARTIST, TO GO TO A MUSEUM, TO VISIT A GALLERY, TO GO TO YOUR STUDIO, TO GO ON AN ARTISTS' DATE, TO WALK IN NATURE AND OBSERVE, TO LOOK AT THE WORLD IN A DIFFERENT WAY!  

17 WITH FLAT GREEN AND RUST

RIVETS 

FALL LANDSCAPE

ART HISTORIAN AT GEORGE OHR MUSUEM 

GEORGE OHR MUSEUM

ANHINGA 

OXFORD EXCHANGE TAMPA

RESTORATION, LOOKING CLOSELY

SKIMMERS  WITH SAND AND SHADOW

MANGROVE BAY

CREATE  ASHEVILLE SIGNAGE

JACOB LAWRENCE 

WASHINGTON D.C. WINTER SEPIA

TODAY YOU CAN BE AN ARTIST, TODAY YOU CAN CREATE, TODAY YOU CAN APPRECIATE BEAUTY, TODAY YOU CAN LOOK CLOSELY AND SEE IN A WAY YOU NEVER HAVE!

WASHINGTON D.C. PUBLIC SULPTURE

FIRE FOR RAKU FIRING

RAKU 

SEAN STARWARS 

SEAN STARWARS

BUBBLE DOG NEW ORLEANS

OGDEN MUSEUM

HIBISCUS AND STAMEN IN PINK

SUNSET OVER THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS

FALL LEAVE IN REPOSE

LOOK  SEE EXPERIENCE FEEL OBSERVE

MIGRATION/A NEVER ENDING STORY

JACOB LAWRENCE(click)
 DOCUMENTED THE IMMIGRATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS FORM THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES TO THE NORTH IN HIS ART WORK

TO ME, MIGRATION MEANS MOVEMENT.  THERE WAS  CONFLICT AND STRUGGLE. BUT OUT OF THE STRUGGLE CAME A KIND OF OWER AND EVEN BEAUTY.

Jacob Lawerence

The Migration series is a 60 panel study by Jacob Lawrence of over a million African Americans who left the rural South for the Industrial North following the start of WWII.  War time hardships and shortages caused the mass exodus.  It was the largest shift of African Americans since slavery.

Jacob Lawrence uses bold forms, colors and gestures to show the migration experience as a powerful human expression of extreme conditions.  Lawrence shows the deepest struggles from hangings and bombings to the general economic and social conditions.

The industrial North

mass migration of african americans from South to North

Tenet farmers were treated harshly 

Deaths from tuberculosis 

harsh treatment

mass migration

Wedding

Bombing after moving Norhtward

The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. has a wonderful grouping of Jacob Lawrence's work.  They do allow one to take photo's and I was so enamored with this series I discovered I had photographed the entire collection four year previous and forgotten.  So lets share this work and ponder the word and thought of the act of migration.