news2018 ABSTRACT MINDED: WORKS BY SIX CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ARTIST Curated by Osi Audu Participating artists: Osi Audu, Nicholas Hlobo, Serge Alain Nitegeka, Odili Donald Odita, Nnenna Okore, Elias Sime
 OSI AUDU, Self-Portrait: Benin Head, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 76x95 inches, (one of my four works showing in Abstract Mined). UPCOMING EXHIBITION at Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild's Kleinert James Center for the Arts, (Woodstock NY) October 19 - December 2, 2018 OSI AUDU, NEW PORTRAITS: FRAMING THE INTANGIBLE--FORMAL DIALOGUES WITH AFRICAN ART  OSI AUDU, self-Portrait: Yoruba Head, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 76 x 95 inches (will be showing as part of my upcoming solo exhibition at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts in October 2018) Use this link for more details - http://www.woodstockguild.org/exhibitions/ New work, Self-Portrait: Benin Head, 2016 - showing in "UNTITLED" at Morton Fine Art Gallery, Washington DC. Exhibition opens January 12.  OSI AUDU, Self-Portrait: Benin Head, 2016, graphite and pastel on paper mounted on canvas, 36 x 40 ins. Hood Museum's Recent Acquisition The Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire has just acquired one of my drawings - Self-Portrait:The Bearded, 2015, graphite and pastel on paper mounted on canvas, 56 x 72 ins
OSI AUDU, Self-Portrait - The Bearded, 2015, graphite and pastel on paper mounted on canvas, 56 x 72 ins exhibitions and public lectures
2016 OSI AUDU - New Portraits: Self in the Global Age
Solo exhibition at Skoto Gallery, New York. January
14 - February 20, 2016.
OSI AUDU in the
Village Voice, New York Tuesday,
February 16, 2016
"Osi Audu was born in Nigeria..., and
his shape-shifting drawings derive partly from the
Yoruba concept that the human head encompasses a
duality of spirit and matter, mind and body. Combining
layered graphite and fathomless black pastel edged
with sleek white lines, each of Audu’s renderings
oscillates between a depiction of an empty and oddly
shaped container — imagine a hatbox with tendrils —
and a space-warping geometric abstraction. The
graphite planes shimmer like sheet metal, seemingly
enclosing dark expanses rimmed with light. Segueing between three-dimensional representation and
vivid graphic design, Audu’s work encourages mind
games that summon unexpected allusions. With its
cartoonish curves, Self-Portrait No. 57 (2015)
recalls the line drawing Alfred Hitchcock made of
himself for his television show, which, during the
opening titles, would be filled with the director’s
own shadow. Audu delivers a similar sense of
disembodied animation, flummoxing the brain as his
velvety surfaces dazzle the eye. Some future
production of Hamlet could up the metaphysical
ante by using one of these drawings as a stand-in for
Yorick’s skull." Click HERE to view the full article.
more info
visit - frontiersreimagined.org  OSI AUDU, Self-Portrait V, 2015, pastel and graphite on paper mounted on canvas, 56.5 x 76.5 inches (Showing at the Venice Biennale collateral event exhibition - Frontiers Reimagined, Palazzo Grimani Museum till Nov. 22, 2015)  OSI AUDU, Self-Portrait II, 2015, pastel and graphite on paper mounted on canvas, 56.5 x 76.5 inches (Showing at the Venice Biennale collateral event exhibition - Frontiers Reimagined, Palazzo Grimani Museum till Nov. 22, 2015) 2015
Detroit
Institute of Arts (DIA), Arts and Mind Lecture
Series. I
shall be presenting a
paper titled - After-Image:
Exploring African Concept of Dualism Through
Color, on
April 19, 2015, 2:00PM. For
more information, please visit - 2015
ArtsWestchester,
31 Mamaroneck Ave. White Plains, New York, NEA
Funded
exhibition titled - Crossing
Borders - Large scale wall
drawing and painting on canvas
- opening March 15, 2015 12 -5 PM
http://www.fios1news.com/lowerhudsonvalley/artsee-festival-prep
___________________________________________________________________________ Osi Audu: In Dialogue with Michael Stone-Richards and Addie Langford, at the N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit on 8/9/14.http://vimeo.com/103023983  ___________________________________________________________________________ May 16 - August 16, 2014 The N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art (Detroit) features:in The Black Box Gallery "Thinginess and Nothingness" by Nigerian born New York artist Osi Audu, whose geometric works on canvas invite the viewer to experience the visual imagery effects of "after-images" and examine the qualifications of a "self-portrait."  Osi AUDU, Self-Portrait XXV, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 17 6:00 - 9:00PM N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, 52 East Forest, Detroit, Michigan 48201 ___________________________________________________________________________ Morton Fine Arts Gallery, 1781 Florida Ave NW 20009, Washington DC AFRICAN ORIGINS - 4 Contemporary Artists Born in Africa and Living in the US featuring OSI AUDU, ROSEMARY FEIT COVEY, VICTOR EKPUK and NNENNA OKORE April 25- May 20, 2014 _________________________________________________________________________ACASA 16th Triennial Symposium on African ArtMarch 19 - 22, 2014, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn New York. Osi Audu - Paper Title: After-Image: Exploring the Tangible and Intangible through Color. Panel title - Red, white, black and more: sensing, defining and performing color Osi - In Conversation with Anthony Shelton, curator - Horniman Museum, London "The Seeing Mind" (2002)  Artists in Dialogue: Next Wave Nigeria at the Newark Museum. Thursday, May 10, 7-8:30 pm Reception in the Engelhard Court, 6-7 pm Free with suggested admission. Pre-registration is required, call 973.596.6613. Guest artists: Marcia Kure, Nnenna Okore and Osi Audu Moderator: Christa Clarke, Senior Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Americas Sponsored by the Friends of African Art. http://www.newarkmuseum.org/museum_default_page.aspx?id=13324 Newark Museum's Recent Acquisition The Newark Museum has just acquired one of my large diptych paintings - "Outer and Inner Head," 2002, acrylic and wool on canvas, diptych: 48x48 inches (each panel):   |
links Please click on links below to view articles on-line http://oracle.newpaltz.edu/dorsky-museum-welcomes-abstract-minded/
http://www.rollmagazine.com/abstract-minded-works-by-six-contemporary-african-artists-at-the-dorsky/
Glen Mannisto, review of Absrat
Minded: Works by Six Contemporary African Artists
http://detroitartreview.com/2017/11/abstract-minded-works-by-six-contemporary-african-artists/
http://wsimag.com/art/19228-osi-audu Newark
Museum's online article on Outer and Inner Head,
2002
Inspiration Africa – I have a landscape in my Head at the Horniman Framing consciousness in Art: Transcultural Perspectives
Yoruba
concept of the Mind - by Osi Audu
Museum of the Mind – show at the British Museum
NKA – Journal of contemporary African Art
African
Affairs - National Museum of African Art Washington DC
Artinfo.com
- article on Osi Audu
HEAD
ON – Art with the Brain in Mind
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