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... to Canvas F riday, December 2, 1960, was the fi nal time that Patrice Émery Lumumba, the fi rst dem-ocratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was ever seen on camera. He was assassinated a little over a month later, on January 17, 1961. In one of the images re- cording his last...

... for Canvas maga- lidi ya Homu would be had it been the African artists, it perhaps had less of a zine, the premier magazine for art and sole showcase in the space (as, indeed, visual synergy with them, although the culture in the Middle East. She is also it was at Carroll/Fletcher). The artist sensory...

... devastated Detroit and Newark, NJ, she painted Die expressly for the show. The wall-size canvas depicts an interracial cast of clean-cut antagonists trying to kill one another. Although the painting represented the kind of large-scale, politically motivated figuration that had been out of favor since...

... of a double-headed axe of Shango, the Yoruba god of fire, lightning, and thunder. The axe, wielded by the composition’s central figure, shatters the pictorial plane of the canvas, which Donaldson variously labeled G lass , S heet , and M ade in USA. I argue that, through his appropriation of African art...

... Wanjiku, Untitled, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 70 cm. © Beatrice Wanjiku Okeke-Agulu Nka 89 The Strangeness of My Madness, 2013. Mixed media on canvas, 100 x 150 cm. © Beatrice Wanjiku what Stuart Hall once described as the brute facts of human history, which after all have disfigured the lives...

... wielding the brush, often in front of a canvas on which the depiction of his or her self-portrait is in process but unfinished. Marshall shows us the act of self...

... - bris color,and tone—the paint canvas. on what...

... that reflexively recovers the past to reflect on a tumultuous and uncertain present. 48 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 51 November 2022 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10127153 © 2022 by Nka Publications Dawit Abebe, Background 1, 2014. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 33 x 33 cm. © the artist Giorgis Nka 49...

... to the American continent, my Kalidou Sy, 1995, Goree, Senegal. Photo: Magaye Niang. Journal of Contemporary African Art Man from the South, 2001. Acrylic, clay, and burlap on canvas, 44 x 37 in. Collection of Eileen Julien. Photo by Michael Cavanagh and Kevin Montague...

..., and African American culture. Journal of Contemporary African Art • 40 • May 2017 16 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-3885907 © 2017 by Nka Publications Jack Whitten, Flying High: Betty Carter, 1998. Acrylic on canvas, 106.5 x 84.3 in. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth, New York...

... and exciting. This unpredictability creates a vital tension or energy between form and formlessness, balancing them on a knife edge. Penny Siopis , Twins , 2009. Oil, ink, and glue on canvas, 100 x 100 cm...

... on canvas, 100 x 70 cm. 30 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art WRITING OF IMAGES Eriberto Eulisse The Work of Fathi Hassan istonans...

... Elizabeth Colomba, The Ants, 2011. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in. Based on a mythological theme of Psyche and Eros. Courtesy the artist. © Elizabeth Colomba Colomba Nka • 197...

..., Saskatchewan), the retrospective (the Denyse Thomasos, Untitled (Self-Portrait), 1984 85. Acrylic on canvas, 121 × 91.5 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Gift of Gail and Gerald Luciano in memory of Denyse Thomasos, 2022. © Estate of Denyse Thomasos and Olga Korper Gallery 158 Nka Journal of Contemporary...

.... Spring / Summer 2001 Nka-67 Gani Odutukun, Columns and Partitions, 1994, Oil on canvas, 86 x 100 cm. financed in the West, bringing with them a lot of post-colonial, neo-primitivist...

... works to allow visitors a chance to understand their connections. This combination of unexpected pairings marks an exciting illumination of the Frick s masterpieces, showing how modern they are in form or subject mat- Barkley L. Hendricks, Lawdy Mama, 1969. Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 53 3/4 x 36 1/4...

... of Contemporary African Art 2011 Faith Ringgold, US America Black, 1969. Oil on stretched canvas, 60 × 84 in. © Faith Ringgold America Black Faith Ringgold’s Black Light Series Journal of Contemporary African Art • 29 • Fall 2011 50 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163...

... to the space of production, and the political stakes of abstraction. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Nka Publications 2023 Morocco modernism abstraction gestural abstraction decolonization Jilali Gharbaoui and Jilali Gharbaoui, Composition, 1960. Oil on canvas, 97.3 x 162.7 cm. Image...

... this underlying difference in art-historical studies for which the paintings of Henok Melkamzer, Henok Melkamzer, Untitled (detail), 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 300 x 130 cm. Courtesy Sharjah Art Foundation 44 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 55 November 2024 DOI 10.1215/10757163-11507490 © 2024 by Nka...

... UK Diaspora series, 2007. Mixed media on canvas, 54 x 45 x 6 cm. Courtesy the artist and International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, UK. © Kimathi Donkor Bernier Nka...