With a keen eye in turning common subjects into objects with a stylized aesthetic, the American artist, Roe Ethridge reroutes his subject matter and inserts it into an odd spatial environment. This sense of oddity is a collective experience for many of his images; taking Coke bottles, fashion models and seashells and implanting an incongruous […]
Monthly Archives: August 2019
Ibrahim Mahama: Trading in Art
Famous for creating installations using Jute sacks, Ibrahim Mahama is an artist working with re-appropriated material purchased from markets in Ghana, where he currently lives and works. Architecture, and the dissonance between its history, form and function is paramount to this artist.[1] Taking materials, which were first cocoa sacks and coal sacks, he has repurposed them […]