In her recent work Nigerian born Marcia Kure re-examines Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, using the fantastic and illusory story as the basis for exploring personal and universal themes. Her drawings, at once beautiful and disturbing, deal with issues relating to the artist’s personal experience as a woman, and mother, but also contemporary global events. Stylistically, Kure’s work is informed by the minimalist Uli mural and body art of eastern Nigerian Igbo women. Thus, using kolanut as her primary source of pigment, she makes delicately rendered drawings that address issues of war, prisoner abuse and violation of women.
Born in Nigerian, Marcia Kure has had nine one-person shows and over forty exhibitions in Nigeria, Germany, the US, Spain, the Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Japan, Canada, Austria and Switzerland. She recently exhibited her work at the BravinLee Programs, NY, New Museum, NY, 7th Sharjah Biennale, and at the Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco. She is participating in the 2nd Seville International Biennial in October, 2006. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Frieze, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, African Arts, Flash Art. |
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