Chris Ofili
Chris Ofili’s mid-career retrospective at Tate Britain is a crowd pleaser, and this is no bad thing. What comes across most strongly in the exhibition is Ofili’s t...
... of carnival. The rich blue hues of Chris Ofili’s Blue Devils (2014) hide fugitive carnival characters in reference to the Trinidadians who paint their bodies blue. Vivid...
... community in Dhaka, while the latter features Christian missionaries and priests engaged in various scenes of ceremony and religiosity. The main protagonist in these works...
... have to mention would be Tal R, Milton Avery, Paul Gauguin, Chris Ofili, Howard Hodgkin and Austin Eddy.
ES: Do you work from memory or do you use source material? SH...
... Victoria Miro showed one of Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s new deceptively domestic scenarios alongside new work by Chris Ofili and Kara Walker.
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... and others – she cites Chris Ofili and Lisa Yuscavage as contemporary influences – are as luxuriantly, sensuously painted as theirs, but with an edge, a deliberate dis...
... covered, and I didn’t really know how to be inventive in depicting something that I live with every day: my own face!
Then I remembered Chris Ofili talking about why h...
... and integrated into each gallery’s presentations. The same held for artists of colour – Sam Gilliam, Henry Taylor, Zanele Muholi, Nari Ward, Chris Ofili, Robert Colesc...
... London 19 December 2017 – 17 February 2018
by JOE LLOYD
It takes a lot of nerve to open an exhibition a week before Christmas. In December, the eyes of collectors a...
... backup the Brooklyn Museum’s past refusal to pull The Holy Virgin Mary (1996), a work by British painter Chris Ofili involving elephant dung – a case of apples and ora...
... aced it, but sorely missing was the current genius of the genre, Christopher Wool, although his wait-listed work was channelled by a passerby wearing a T-shirt lettered PO...
... a happy family sailing off to a faraway island frames its message of hope in an homage to Winslow Homer; the Chris Ofili cameo recalls the government’s misguided attempt...
... Aya Jones), male models (Armando Cabral), hit singles (Kanye West), boxers (Ngoli Okafor), TV sitcoms (Empire), news anchors (Lester Holt), movie stars (Lupita Nyong’o),...
... on garden kitsch, itself kitsch? No matter, I loved it.
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More painting, tending to semi-abstract, as imagery edged out abstraction; such were Chris Ofili’s...
... to place Leckey among a pantheon of other great artists who had controversially won the prize, including Martin Creed, Chris Ofili and Damien Hirst. One of the works featu...
... has promoted the careers of many who have gone on to become household names, including Anthony Caro, Lucian Freud, Gilbert & George, Steve McQueen, Chris Ofili and Damien ...
... What they did was quite a different interest in people.
KT: Going around the show at The Serpentine, I found myself thinking of Peter Doig, Chris Ofili and Per Kirkeby, ...
... table anchoring Ronald Feldman’s space that held a “still life” of closely worked plaster objects; a study in materials at Pavel Zoubok that played off a 1963 wrappe...
... displays seemed dazzling. Among a shark in a tank by Damien Hirst, a frozen, bloody head by Marc Quinn, a Virgin Mary painting covered with elephant dung by Chris Ofili an...
