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Njideka Akunyili Crosby
\n<\/span>Nigeria, New York, b.1983
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Portals
\n<\/span>2016
\n<\/span>Acrylic, transfers on paper, colored pencil, collage, and commemorative fabric on paper.
\n<\/span>Courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro, London.<\/span><\/p>\n

Portals<\/span><\/i> presents Njideka Crosby\u2019s desire to connect her various cultural experiences<\/span>. She employs mixed media, taking images from <\/span>Nigerian pop culture and politics, which feature significant figures such as pop stars, models and celebrities, as well as lawyers in white wigs and military dictators<\/span>\u00a0(Victoria Miro 2016: Njideka Akunyili Crosby). These pieces are representative of her origin and formative years in Nigeria; such things as the choice of portraiture and the patterned interiors speak to her experience in the US and training in European\/American art history. For Aken, this contrast creates “a new visual language that represents [her] experience” as a Nigerian woman living in the US. Likewise, displaying this artwork in the exhibition in New York (Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney Collection) and London (Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Portals) created a transnational exhibition reflecting the artist\u2019s own effort to manifest the sentiment of existence and movement across national borders and seas. (Zelt 2018:122). \u00a0Crosby\u2019s intersectional representation of how her Nigerian and American experiences interact thus find its themes carried out both within and beyond the canvas of her artwork.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.njidekaakunyilicrosby.com\/work\/portals#details
\n<\/span><\/a>https:\/\/www.victoria-miro.com\/artists\/185-njideka-akunyili-crosby\/
\n<\/span><\/a>Zelt, Natalie. 2018. Picturing an Impossible American: Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Photographic Transfers in Portals (2016). <\/span>Open Cultural Studies<\/span><\/i>. 2(1): 212-224. Retrieved 25 Apr. 2019, from <\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/culture-2018-0020<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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