Night Gallery is pleased to present Market, an exhibition of new work by Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola. This is the artist’s first presentation at the gallery.
Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola, Market, installation view, 2021
Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola, CAMOUFLAGE #077 (Franzia), 2021
Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola’s work responds to and updates the legacy of the readymade, placing the sculptural mode of inquiry in dialogue with traditions of abstract painting. Formal exchanges within and between Akinbola’s artworks push his materials away from their typical cultural and historical evocations, emphasizing plays of color and texture while highlighting unexpected thematic associations. Throughout the artist’s process he has used durags as a primary material to continue the investigations of the Color Field and Action Painting movements. Each successive series of paintings takes up its own line of aesthetic inquiry, exploring the properties and possibilities of his medium through attention to color, fabric, drapery, and composition. Rather than negating the cultural connotations of the durag altogether, these works invite the viewer to both engage and detach their preconceptions at will, exploring how changing contexts create newfound activations of the familiar.
Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola, Power Figure #016, 2021
