Beatrice Njoroge's First Solo show of 2012

Kenya Thu 05-01-2012

Beatrice Njoroge's First Solo show of 2012
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Beatrice Njoroge Solo show One Off gallery

Beatrice Wanjiku's first Solo Show of 2012

Opening Sunday 22nd January 2012

One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, #16 Rosslyn Lone Tree, Nairobi

About

The paintings challenge one to look beyond the surface through the exposure of their hidden stories. Using a process of simultaneous multiplicities the images play with the processes of revealing and concealing. Through the use of layering and texture in the paintings each fresh thought and new ideas grows off the previous both literally and metaphorically. The use of typography has been key texts lifted from magazines novels and newspapers with their self reflective prose to explore ideas such as vanity humanity adaptation memories and transitions.
The contrast between abstraction, text, montage and layering and the image of the face on several of my paintings is to explore the notion of the self through the perception of the other. The face as the final layer gives something recognizable to the viewer, a point of clear identification rooting the play of words and ideas in the physical human form and our most immediateexpression of the self, the face.

Events & Exhibitions

2011 Vermont Studio Center September - November
2011 Ziba Ufa (Installation) Kuona Trust Nairobi
2011 Columbia City Gallery (Africa: The Mother of Us All)Jan 26-13th Mar
2010 Solo Exhibition Le Rustique Oct 8th-10th Nov
2010 Politics of art and the art of politics (video Installation) Kuona trust, Nairobi.
2009 Artist without Borders Triangle exhibition.
2009 Solo Exhibition RaMoMA Museum of Modern Art, Nairobi.
2008 Africa Now, Washington DC
2008 “How I like it” artist initiative for the displaced
2008 Art for peace at the Godown Arts Center Nairobi
2008 Contemporary Art in Kenya 2 years on. French cultural centre
2007 Three some At the Godown Art center
2006 Africa Within: Many Eyes One Soul (The Royal Commonwealth Society) London UK
2006 Kuona Trust10th international Artists Residency
2005 Bankside gallery London
2004 “Utopia” RaMOMA
2003 “East African women’s Workshop Exhibition” Gallery of Contemporary East African Art, National Museums of Kenya

Posted By: Andrew Njoroge

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Your Comments

Joe Pollitt: Good luck Beatrice. Here is one of Africa's greatest artists. She's been away in the States for the last couple of years but her work in some of the most exciting being produced on the Continent. Good luck for this show and I hope you are a sell-out! Much love from over here. Joe X

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