Exhibition Online

Kris Russo

Kris Russo is an artist and educator interested in how the ongoing project of how Western colonization, capitalism and cultures of extraction impact us, our communities and our environments. She uses plastic and play as her medium to explore themes of symbiosis, suffocation, and love.

Walking on the World
2021
Plastic bag
15.86 x 17.78 inches

Samsara
2021
Plastic bag
35.56 x 40.64 inches

Devotion to Heavenly Bodies
2021
Plastic bag
25.90 x 17.78 inches

Ascension
2021
Plastic bag
20.95 x 33 inches

Ascending to Join Spirit
2021
Plastic bag
19.05 x 27.94 inches

Mother, Child and Holy Spirits
2021
Plastic bag
14.48 x 29.21 inches

Foluso Oguntoye

Foluso is an artist based in Lagos, Nigeria and graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from Manchester School of Art, UK in 2016. As an artist who is drawn to the land, nature and plants. As a plantsman/gardener, he also has a close, experiential and working relationship with nature. For over 6 years, he has continuously deepened his knowledge and love for nature and birthed a desire to merge his nature work with his art practice.

He is particularly influenced by tropical, indigenous flora, fauna, forests and landscapes and human relationships with them. He explores this directly and indirectly through subtle themes around West African mythology & folklore; esoteric spirituality as well as climate change/environmental conservation. Foluso seeks to continually explore and expand these themes in his practice to see where it leads.

Since 2016, Foluso has participated in various group shows.

Your Leaf is Sealed Upon My Heart (1_10)

Your Leaf is Sealed Upon My Heart
2019-2021
Matte Canvas Paper
29.5 x 38.35 inches

What Money Can’t Buy
2020
Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas
90 x 110.3 inches

We Can Mend This Broken World
2019
Matte Canvas Paper
34.80 x 43.18 inches

Vessel Gourd Woman
2018
Matte Canvas Paper
44.45 x 59.69 inches

Identity is Ephemeral
2020
Matte Canvas Paper
20.32 x 25.4 inches

My Purple Heart
2020
Pen, Watercolour and Oil Pastel on Paper
26.67 x 39.5 inches

Study of the Candle Plant, Senna Alata
2019
Acrylic on Canvas Paper
20 x 27.94 inches

Beholding Beautiful Bountiful Revelations
2018
Acrylic on Canvas Paper
36 x 38.1 inches

Can the Plant Realize Itself.
2020
Matte Canvas Paper
16.51 x 28.45 inches

Clarity and Direction
2020
Matte Canvas Paper
24.13 x 45 inches

Fiyin Koko

Fiyinfoluwa “Fiyin Koko” Tunde Onadele is a figurative Nigerian artist and painter. She was introduced to art at a young age by watching her mother paint. This impelled her innate artistic talent to become a self taught artist.

Her work is inspired by all facets of womanism and encapsulates the unerring beauty of the black woman. Black women, popularly portrayed as strong and showing resistance are often viewed from a masculine only point of view. However, Fiyin Koko expresses their feminine resilience in a delicate, often humorous and ethereal style.

Fiyin Koko focuses on the prime use of symbolism to coalesce her personal experiences, hopes and dreams. By configuring light, and bold colour palettes in her mixed media paintings and digital illustrations; she imparts feelings of harmony and a deepening fondness for and of black women.