We are proud to bring to your attention the Exhibition "Drawing Methaphors" by Victor Ekpuk, former artist in residence at the Thami Mnyele Foundation.

Reception: Sawhill Gallery - September 27 @ 8 p.m.

Public Lecture: September 27 @ 7 p.m., Location: TBD

Exhibition runs August 22 thru October 2, 2011

Award-winning Nigerian American artist Victor Ekpuk explores the relationships, challenges and responses to changes that characterize the human condition.
This solo exhibition continues Ekpuk's exploration of drawing as an independent genre that is not a support for painting, some of these drawings are realized in traditional media like pastel and graphite while others are through the digital process.

more info: http://www.sawhillgallery.com/

Unique to Ekpuk's art is his use of nsibidi, an indigenous African system of writing that employs graphic signs and code to convey concepts.
In his compositions, Ekpuk mixes nsibidi signs with contemporary symbols and invented pseudo-writings that evoke the idea of text, where legibility and illegibility become metaphors.