CONNECTING THE DOTS, a solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Nigeria’s fast rising visual artist Olumide Onadipe, opens to the public on May 14th at Temple Muse in celebration of its tenth anniversary.
His signature sculptures, made from up-cycled and re-purposed plastic shopping bags, water sachets, juice packs, cement bags and newspapers are presented alongside his paintings, which are a continuation of his eclectic palette of rich materiality and textural freedom, showing human forms emerging out of intricate tangles of roots and leaves.
“In Connecting the Dots we see an artist who boldly questions the status-quo, and whose art has swept him to the very cusp of the rising tide of contemporary art coming out of Nigeria,” said Sandra Mbanefo Obiago, Artistic Director of SMO and curator of the exhibition. “His expression is in-sync with the aspirations of millions of Nigerian youth trying to seek better livelihoods within a totally overburdened natural and political ecosystem.”
Onadipe graduated with a Bachelors’ degree in painting from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 2008 and earned his Masters’ of Fine Art in 2012 from the University of Lagos.
He has taken part in numerous exhibitions in the United Kingdom, Ghana, and Nigeria and is in important local and international collections. Connecting the Dots is supported by Veuve Clicquot, and runs through August 30th, 2018.
