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In Conversation: Abe Odedina and Lara Pawson
Abe Odedina at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair London, 2024 November 5, 2024LARA PAWSON: This is actually Abe's second appearance at Somerset House in the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. The first was seven years ago in...Read more -
In Conversation: Abe Odedina and Katherine Finerty
Ed Cross at 19 Garrett Street October 31, 2023* * * KATHERINE FINERTY : I’ll go ahead and start with a little introduction. Abe Odedina was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, but has been...Read more -
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Ed Cross Celebrates 15 Years March 7, 2024It could be said that my journey towards being a gallerist started in 1988 in Kenya, where this latter day European adventurer ended up on...Read more -
Cutting Edge, from Cutting Edge at 20 Clerkenwell Green
Abe Odedina, Conversation Piece #12 November 24, 2021Abe Odedina’s Cutting Edge surveys the myriad resonances that ‘cutting’ might have in the lives of human beings. Giving shape to established mythologies with one...Read more -
The Woman in the Background: Odedina and Manet at VOMA
By Abe Odedina November 11, 2020There are two women in Edouard Manet’s infamous Olympia. We know a lot about one; reclining, pert and centre stage, is Victorine Meurent. White as...Read more -
Warm Leatherette
Abe Odedina April 8, 2020Abe Odedina’s Warm Leatherette is an uncanny tableau, familiar and alien at once. On its surface – and when it comes to painting, what else...Read more