Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze
Tiwani Contemporary London
From February 20 until March 28, 2015.
February 21: Yvette Greslé (writes for Africanah.org) talks with the artist at 3PM.
In the challenge of land-water, air is victorious, 2014.
About:
Just being there with you is like flying, 2014.
“For me, drawing is a self-sufficient, non-precursory medium, with the ability to absorb, layer, erase and reveal mark-making processes. Drawing is interactive; a dialogue between the maker, the paper or other surface, the materials and the processes. It is a back and forth exchange in which a certain amount of control is relinquished to the inherent nature of the materials to do as they will, while actively making conscious decisions to either initiate marks or respond to happenings.”
The garden palace and the folly of innocence, 2014.
“Upon completion, inevitably there are multiple drawings that exist beneath the visible surface of the paper, without which, what is visible would not have come to be. Drawing is intuitive. It lends itself to the most intimate and visceral spaces of thought and expression. It transcends all time. It is vulnerable in nature, often without polish or prestige”.
(quotes from IAM Africa)
With the galaxy beneath her she remembered the magic of soaring amidst coconut clouds, 2014.
ruby onyinyechi amanze is a Brooklyn based artist of Nigerian birth
and British upbringing. her drawings and works on paper have been influenced greatly by this cultural hybridity, as well as textile design, photography, print-making and architecture.
amanze graduated Summa Cum Laude from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia. she then went on to pursue a M.F.A at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
amanze has exhibited her work in numerous exhibitions in New York,
London, Ghana, Lagos, Philadelphia, Seattle and Amsterdam. most recently, amanze was
awarded a 2012-13 Fulbright Scholars Award, to join the
Department of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Nigeria,
Nsukka. she currently resides in Brooklyn where she maintains a full time studio practice.
(text from website artist)