West Africa was once known as the Ivory Coast due to the abundance of elephant herds that once roamed the area. I have re-appropriated the term to refer to the extraction of Black bodies from the continent.
Additional Artworks
From MASUD OLUFANI
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La Diosa del Sol, 2024
Stoneware (cast yucca), and graphite on paper
36 x 36 x 7 in (91.44 x 91.44 x 17.78 cm)
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Can't Cage My Strut, 2024
Wood, paint, powdered charcoal, photo transfer on paper, stuffed rooster
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Okra Fly, 2024
Carved wood, stain, stoneware, steel.
62 x 16 x 22 in (157.48 x 40.64 x 55.88 cm)
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The Conjurer and the Oracle, 2024
Wood, steel, stoneware, red clay, acrylic paint, cloth, rope and tar.
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Tapping the Root, 2024
Carved wood and stoneware.
132 x 19 in (335.28 x 48.26 cm)
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The Black Eyed Nkisi Nkondi, 2024
Wood, automotive heating coil, steel, red clay, black eyed peas.
34 x 20 x 6.5 in (86.36 x 50.8 x 16.51 cm)
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The Rhythm and the Harvest, 2024
Steel, wood, paint, tar, nylon, dye, cotton, coffee, tobacco, rice, spanish moss, peat moss
108 x 39.5 x 18 in (274.32 x 100.33 x 45.72 cm)
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Wo-Mende Series (Excerpt, Cynthia), 2023
graphite on paper and serigraph on plexiglass
27 x 21 x 2.5 in (68.58 x 53.34 x 6.35 cm)