http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/697
NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY ON PAINTING CULTURAL COLLISION
Nigerian-born painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby often grapples with dual ideas of home in her work. She discusses how she studied European figurative painting at an art academy, but now uses her traditional training to invent, transform, and express her uniquely hybrid point of view.
Source: http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/697#ixzz3kpAllhtg
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
"I think of it as a contact zone — the moment where my Nigerian-ness and my American-ness collided." For Nigerian artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby, her marriage and dual ideas of home inspire her lush, bright paintings.
"The overarching theme in the work is this point of union between two cultures."
(You can see her "Wedding Portrait" on view at MoAD for "Portraits and Other Likenesses" →sfmoma.me/portraitsandotherlikenesses )
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