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On View: 'Michael Armitage: Crucible,' Paintings by Kenyan British Artist Explore Migration at David Zwirner in New York
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On View: ‘Michael Armitage: Crucible,’ Paintings by Kenyan British Artist Explore Migration at David Zwirner in New York

by Victoria L. Valentine on Jun 27, 2025 • No Comments
MICHAEL ARMITAGE, “Don’t Worry There Will Be More,” 2024 (oil on Lubugo bark cloth, 67 x 87 inches / 170.2 x 221 cm). | © Michael Armitage, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner   On View presents images from noteworthy exhibitions   THREE YEARS AFTER Michael Armitage (b. 1984) joined David Zwirner, his first solo...
Goodman Gallery Now Represents Kenyan Artist Chemu Ng'ok, 'I Feel Like the Body is a Fertile Ground for Contemplation, for Ideas'
Representation

Goodman Gallery Now Represents Kenyan Artist Chemu Ng’ok, ‘I Feel Like the Body is a Fertile Ground for Contemplation, for Ideas’

by Victoria L. Valentine on Dec 15, 2023 • No Comments
GOODMAN GALLERY announced its representation of Chemu Ng’ok (b. 1989) last week. Ng’ok’s paintings and drawings feature abstracted figures and figurative forms entangled in a web of linework. The images explore the physical, psychological, and political aspects of the body and the complexities of human interaction, occupying space, and simply being. “I am thrilled to...
New Voice With Plenty to Say: Kenyan Painter Michael Armitage Bridges European Traditions and East African Modernism
Books & Catalogs / Exhibitions

New Voice With Plenty to Say: Kenyan Painter Michael Armitage Bridges European Traditions and East African Modernism

by Victoria L. Valentine on Aug 3, 2020 • No Comments
Artist Michael Armitage. | Photo courtesy White Cube   ONE OF THE MOST THOUGHT-PROVOKING figures in contemporary painting, Kenyan artist Michael Armitage probes the politics and cultural history of East Africa. His fascinating narrative scenes have a mythical quality and abstract tendencies that draw on aesthetic tensions between European traditions and East African modernism. In...

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