Weavers translated a triptych watercolour painting by Ofili into a tapestry, and this exhibition gives visitors the chance to see this amazing work and learn about the fascinatin...
In Ofili’s major new series of paintings, he invites us to contemplate the subject of sin, taking us to a dreamlike and colourful world inhabited by humans and mythological cre...
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...
... long rejected by the Christian church, and how he aims to give an interpretation of the text from his perspective as a non-believer
by JANET McKENZIE
The artist Angus ...
... Isa Genzken, Sigmar Polke, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Joan Mitchell, Chris Ofili, Sherrie Levine, Barbara Kruger, Kerry James Marshall, Richard Serra and Douglas Wheeler: draw...
... making work inside. You have said you would like to be like Christo and Jeanne-Claude, you would like more architectural and open-air interventions. Is there anything in 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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Fredric Snitzer ...
... 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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