Toyin Odutola

Selected works | 2012

Nigeria

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Drawing

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — Estranged Relations | 2012 | pen ink and acrylic ink on board | approx. 51 x 76 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — His Constellation | 2012 | pen ink and marker on paper | 35.5 x 28 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — After Jeremy Kost | 2012 | pen ink on paper | 30.5 x 23 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — Untitled (Study) | 2012 | pen ink on paper | 23 x 30.5 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — Uncertain, yet Reserved. (Adeola. Abuja Airport, Nigeria.) | 2012 | acrylic ink and pen ink on board | 76 x 51 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — Maebel | 2012 | pen ink on paper | 30.5 x 23 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — Bored, Doe-Eyed and Waiting. (Dotun. Enugu, Nigeria.) | 2012 | pen ink on paper | 35.5 x 28 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — Untitled (Dotun. Enugu, Nigeria.) | 2012 | pen ink on paper | 35.5 x 28 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — I had her, and then I lost her | 2012 | pen ink on paper 35.5 x 28 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — The View from Behind | 2012 | pen ink and coffee stain on paper 34 x 26 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — You are welcome | 2012 | pen ink on paper | 28 x 35.5 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — It's Not So Bad, Is it? | 2012 | pen ink on paper 35.5 x 28 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — Dotun at twelve years old | 2012 | pen ink and marker on paper | 23 x 30.5 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — What sorts of stories will we leave behind? Detail | 2012 | pen ink and marker on paper 58 x 39 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — What sorts of stories will we leave behind? Detail | 2012 | pen ink and marker on paper | 58 x 39 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — Shade (Sketch) | 2012 | pen ink and marker on paper | 23 x 30.5 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — Flamboyant Scarf (Sketch) | 2012 | pen ink and marker on paper 23 x 30.5 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — Untitled (Dotun. Enugu, Nigeria.) | 2012 | pen ink on paper | 35.5 x 28 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — Natasha | 2012 | pen ink on paper | 30.5 x 23 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — Hank | 2012 | pen ink and marker on paper | 23 x 30.5 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — Above all else, make it look effortless | 2012 | pen ink, marker and varnish on paper | 23 x 30.5 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — No difference at all | 2012 | pen ink and marker on paper | 35.5 x 28 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — Whenever the occasion arises | 2012 | pen ink and marker on paper | 23 x 30.5 cm

Toyin Odutola: Selected works — What you see is what I left behind (No. 2) | 2012 | pen ink on paper | 23 x 30.5 cm

biography

Toyin Odutola

Toyin Odutola

Born in 1985, Ife, Nigeria.

Artist Statement:

"Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally black portraiture with ballpoint pen ink. I'm looking for that in-between state in an individual where the overarching definition is lost. Skin as geography is the terrain I expand by emphasizing the specificity of blackness, where an individual’s subjectivity, various realities and experiences can be drawn onto the diverse topography of the epidermis. From there, the possibilities of portraying a fully-fledged person are endless."