Odili Donald Odita.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Odita, Odili Donald, artist.

Contributor:

• Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C., contributor.
• Gregory, Stamatina, contributor.
• Volk, Gregory, contributor.
• Sternthal Books, Inc., publisher.
• Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Odita, Odili Donald.
• Art, Modern--21st century--Installation.
• Art, Modern--21st century--Painting.
• Public art--21st century--Installation.
• Painting, Abstract--21st century.
• African American artists--21st century.
• African American artists.
• Painting, Abstract.

Physical Description:

316 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : Sternthal Books, Inc., [2022]

Summary:

Odili Donald Odita is a comprehensive monograph of the artist's work - spanning from his early mixed media collages from the early 1990's -- to his latest three dimensional painting installations and more. Odita's vibrant abstract paintings blur the borderlines of American, African, and Western European traditions of abstract paintings. The book emphasizes the political and aesthetic importance of Odili's visually astounding paintings and installations by presenting them alongside a trove of accompanying visual materials - including images from photographic archives he has collected, drawings, installations, and geometric studies. Inspired both by African and American Design, the book mixes his paintings with a trove of materials from the 'Black Album', a collection of ads, photographs, and media clippings related to race and Black American culture that he has been collecting for years. This intermixing contextualizes Odita's abstract expressionism within a political context of struggle, race, and diaspora, resulting in a timely meditation on race in America.

Contents:

• On Nigeria
• Vanishing points
• Essay The essential Odili Donald Odita / Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi
• Houses
• On home
• Shades of Black
• Predators
• Essay Pattern recognition / Stamatina Gregory
• Public installations
• Give Me Shelter, 2007, Venice, Italy
• Flow, 2007, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Equalizer, 2008, Harlem, New York
• Diaspora (A Visual Sequence)
• Up & Away, 2009, Princeton, New Jersey
• Post Perfect, 2009, San Francisco, California
• Third Space, 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Paintings: 2007-2010
• Light & Vision, 2011, UN, New York City
• Forever, 2011, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Time Curve, 2011, Helsinki, Finland
• Time and Time, 2012, New York, New York
• Heaven.s Gate, 2012, Savannah, Georgia
• Infinite Horizon, 2013, Orlando, Florida
• Selected works, 2001-2013
• Kaleidoscope, 2012, New York, New York
• Possible Worlds, 2014/2015, New York, New York
• Rise, 2015, New Haven, Connecticut
• Bridge, 2015, Blacksburg, Virginia
• Time Bridge, 2015, Durham, North Carolina
• Selected works: 2014-2017
• Shadow & Light, 2015, Durham, North Carolina
• Our House, 2015, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• The Wisdom of Trees, 2017, Indianapolis, Indiana
• Gateway, 2017, Newark, New Jersey
• Open Access, 2018, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Constellation, 2018, Cleveland, Ohio
• Essay Through the years: encounters with Odita, Odili Donald / Gregory Volk
• Image index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index,

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

• 9781988689067
• 1988689066

OCLC:

1379428845

Online:

The Rosengarten Family Fund Home Page