Odili Donald Odita challenges the long-held belief that abstract art is a purely Western tradition.
Odili Donald Odita
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A Transgenerational and Intercultural Look at Abstract Painting
“At the root of these works is the issue of poetics — painterly and textual for Jablon, dynamic, multicolor geometry for Odita.”
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An Abstract Painter Defines a Space of His Own
In his clashing compositions and use of artificial colors and materials Odita generates something very different from artists associated with geometric abstraction and Minimalism.
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“It is intriguing, what the mind selects to focus on (or seek refuge in) during a time of crisis.”
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Painted Colors in Conflicted Motion
Sometime in late 1997, at the former site of the New Museum, I was introduced to a seemingly dejected young painter named Odili Donald Odita.
