{"id":38740,"date":"2016-10-04T18:21:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T16:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=38740"},"modified":"2016-10-04T18:21:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T16:21:21","slug":"njideka-akunyili-crosby-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/njideka-akunyili-crosby-art\/","title":{"rendered":"This Female Artist Is Challenging Notions of the African Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38742\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Njideka-Akunyili-Crosby-Super-Blue-Omo-773x600.jpg\" alt=\"Njideka Akunyili Crosby\" width=\"773\" height=\"600\" \/> &#8220;Super Blue Omo&#8221; (2016) by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, copyright Njideka Akunyili Crosby<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;I want to show just how normal life is in Nigeria&#8221; \u2013Njideka Akunyili Crosby<\/h2>\n<p>When Njideka Akunyili Crosby moved to the US from Nigeria at the age of 16, it dawned on her how little the outside world\u00a0really knew about daily life in her homeland. An unfortunate truth, America has a habit of ignoring and generalising African countries into a monolith of AIDS and corruption. Perplexed by this reality,\u00a0Akunyili Crosby took to painting as a way to show outsiders that daily Nigerian life is not unlike that in America. In an interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2016\/oct\/03\/nigerian-artist-myth-authentic-african-experience-njideka-akunyili-crosby-harlem-studio-museum?CMP=share_btn_fb\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a>, the artist maintains this sentiment. &#8220;Stuck in traffic, 30 minutes late for a meeting \u2013 that is the bulk of life.&#8221; She furthers, &#8220;I think people sensationalise places in their heads, so I wanted to show just how normal life is in Nigeria.\u201d<br \/>\nThough the young artist originally envisioned a career in medicine\u00a0\u2013 a path her father and several siblings have all taken \u2013 encouragement from a past art teacher gave\u00a0Akunyili Crosby the confidence to pursue painting. A long string of awards and accolades later, and the\u00a0talented creative has built a career focused on demolishing tired stereotypes of the &#8220;authentic African experience&#8221;. Incorporating found materials that exemplify Nigerian pop culture, Akunyili Crosby&#8217;s paintings are best described as documentations of the in-between, displaying the moments in one&#8217;s life\u00a0that often go overlooked. Each artwork is a testament to the\u00a0fact that no matter where a person comes\u00a0from,\u00a0chances are their life is a lot\u00a0more similar than different.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Njideka-Akunyili-Crosby-Ike-Ya-667x600.jpg\" alt=\"Njideka Akunyili Crosby\" width=\"667\" height=\"600\" \/> &#8220;Ike Ya&#8221; (2016) by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, copyright Njideka Akunyili Crosby<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Njideka-Akunyili-Crosby-See-Through-525x600.jpg\" alt=\"Njideka Akunyili Crosby\" width=\"525\" height=\"600\" \/> &#8220;See Through&#8221; (2016) by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, copyright Njideka Akunyili Crosby<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Portals&#8221; by\u00a0Njideka Akunyili Crosby is on display at London&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoria-miro.com\/exhibitions\/496\/\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Miro<\/a> gallery until 5 November 2016<\/strong> \n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I want to show just how normal life is in Nigeria&#8217;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[6157,3466,38,1072,6158,4723,6159],"class_list":["post-38740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-african-art","tag-african-diaspora","tag-art","tag-exhibition","tag-nigerian-art","tag-njideka-akunyili-crosby","tag-victoria-miro"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This Female Artist Is Challenging Notions of the African Experience<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/njideka-akunyili-crosby-art\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Female Artist Is Challenging Notions of the African Experience\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#039;I want to show just how normal life is in Nigeria&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/njideka-akunyili-crosby-art\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-10-04T16:21:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2\u00a0Minuten\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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