Happy birthday to Odili Donald Odita, who was born on this day in 1966 in Enugu, Nigeria. Now based
Happy birthday to Odili Donald Odita, who was born on this day in 1966 in Enugu, Nigeria. Now based in Philadelphia, Odita is a master of form and color whose work challenges historical conventions about abstract art. In his painting “Rift,” the artist stacks rigid, crisp planes of color on top of each other to emphasize the distance between contemporary abstraction and modernity. The color palette was also influenced by African textiles, subtly critiquing the colonial undertones of western abstraction while destabilizing the traditional notions of the sublime.“Rift,” December 2003, by Odili Donald Odita © Odili Donald Odita -- source link
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