Join us for an amazing exhibition of Nigerian-American painter, délé jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́.
Come see his art, buy some artwork, meet new people, and network in the Lower Eastside in Manhattan on May 8, 2025. We are happy to be on 1st Street and 1st Avenue.
Protestations: délé jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́, Art, and Activism, curated by Atim Annette Oton, is a solo exhibition of the artist's paintings over the last five years.
Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/protestations-dele-jegede-art-and-activism-tickets-1281543734809
Bio:
délé jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́ is a Nigerian-American painter, art historian, cartoonist, curator, art critic, art administrator, and teacher. jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́ was a Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC (1995). He taught at Spelman College, Atlanta, as Visiting Fulbright Scholar (1987-1988), when he curated the exhibition Art By Metamorphosis. Listed in Kelly and Stanley's Nigerian Artists: A Who's Who & Bibliography, jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́ was Professor and Chair of the Department of Art, Indiana State University, Terre Haute (2002-2005) and Professor of Art at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio (2005-2010). He retired as Professor Emeritus in May 2015. jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́ is the recipient of the Distinguished Africanist Award of the University of Texas. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Cartoonists Association of Nigeria (CARTAN). He is fully engaged as Principal Artist in délé jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́ Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Calabar Gallery represents him.
We look forward to seeing you.
Calabar Gallery. 56 East 1st Street, Near 1st Avenue. Lower East Side, New York
Short Note on Black Lives Matter: délé jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́.
Black Lives Matter. That was the universal refrain from millions of conscientious citizens across the globe, who milled in unison across streets and avenues, corners and boulevards, parks and squares in their respective domains. They carried placards and banners admonishing a nation that actively suborns its trained cops to place its minority population in their crosshairs. The world recoiled in horror at the unconscionable and casual manner a blue blood strategically placed his cocked knee on the neck of George Floyd, a hapless black blood who was dragged out and lain prostate on a Minnesota street in daylight. Black Lives Matter. Perish the thought. So countered the hegemon who charged the cops to stop being nice; who brought the uniformed general with him to the church; and whose subliminal message must forever remain toxic to my sensitivity as an artist. The studio beckons.
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