September 2 – October 31, 2021
Inside Oluwatobi Adewumi’s cultural milieu the male artist bestows ultimate respect to womanhood by depicting her power to create, nurture, protect, and reflect Black life in the diaspora
Headlines is a solo exhibition of twenty-two works by Adewumi that depict the attributes of Black womanhood as it persists against vilification and harm. Much of Western society’s effort to be superior occurs through destruction rather than by its own improvement. How effective are these marked attempts to recast Black womanhood? What attributes are reflected in these personas that reveal residual harm by the Western lineage? Does culture persist?
Headlines is Oluwatobi Adewumi’s tribute to the complexity of the Black woman as culture bearer.
Oluwatobi Adewumi
Whose Stories Should We Tell? (Print)
Oluwatobi Adewumi
Blood and Sweat
Oluwatobi Adewumi
State House: Freedom
Oluwatobi Adewumi
Life
Oluwatobi Adewumi
Through the Ages
Oluwatobi Adewumi
I See It Coming 2
Oluwatobi Adewumi
Hidden Struggle
Oluwatobi Adewumi
The Things Around My Neck
Oluwatobi Adewumi
Product of Society 2
Oluwatobi Adewumi
I See It Coming 1
Oluwatobi Adewumi
The Outsider
Oluwatobi Adewumi
Whose Stories Should We Tell?