Birmingham (left, middle, right), Tamarind Institute; Toyin Ojih Odutola

Artwork Overview

Tamarind Institute, printer and publisher
founded 1970
born 1985
Birmingham (left, middle, right), 2014
Where object was made: New York, New York, United States
Material/technique: color lithograph; gold leaf
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 609.6 x 412.75 mm each
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 24 x 16 1/4 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 32 x 24 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: R. Charles and Mary Margaret Clevenger Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number: 2017.0096.a,b,c
On display: Perkins Central Court

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Bold Women

In this trio of portraits, Toyin Ojih Odutola depicts her brother in a series of poses. She elegantly renders his skin in layers of gold leaf on black, a skin that seems to hold ancestral and contemporary multitudes. Odutola uses this distinctive technique in many of her works, both marking and obscuring her subjects’ bodies and identities, mimicking the complexities of Black experience in the United States.

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