Artist Spotlight: Kosisochukwu Nnebe
Artist Statement:
In July 2013, I created Coloured Conversations, an online project aimed at exploring race through art. The project began out of a need to create a space wherein the process through which one becomes racialized and gendered could be explored, critiqued and redefined.
More importantly, I believe in the power of black art as a way to facilitate a process of self-determination.
Much of my artwork consists of portraits of black women that paint them in bright colors and with a self-assured gaze that forces the viewer to reconsider their own misconceptions about black female identity. My two main mediums are oil pastels, watercolors and acrylic paint. In using watercolors, I tend to explore the realm of fashion illustration, which tends to be just as dominated by white visions of beauty as the fashion industry itself. In the past year I’ve had several opportunities to share my art and message.
In October 2013. I participated in the Congress of Black Writers and Artist and gave a talk about the relationship between black art and black power. This past February, I also had the opportunity to participate in a group art exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts that explored the history and identity of Black Canadians.
Beautiful artworks by artist Kosisochukwu Nnebe.
Kosisochukwu Nnebe's name which means “as it pleases God” in Igbo is a reminder
of her Nigerian heritage, and one of the main things that ties her back to it.
Kosisochukwu Nnebe is currently based in Montreal doing a double major in
economics and international development studies at McGill University.
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