Posts by Ed Cross

  • In Conversation: Abe Odedina and Lara Pawson

    Abe Odedina at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair London, 2024
    by Ed Cross
    Abe Odedina, Madame Lasirenn, 2024
    Abe Odedina, Madame Lasirenn, 2024

    I like to leave in space in the painting for the observer because, for me, a painting can only be understood as something between my expression and your interpretation. I think that's important. Also, it's a static thing on the wall and somehow with the concreteness and the diagrammatic nature of the painting, it's important for me to allow the viewer to inhabit the painting themselves. I think it really makes the work bigger, in my opinion. If a work can be equally charming and disturbing, I'm thrilled.

     
  • Ed Cross on Ermias Ekube

    "Painter, thinker, poet, educator"
    by Ed Cross
    Ermias Ekube, Examining Egg, 2020
    Ermias Ekube, Examining Egg, 2020

    Ermias Ekube’s story is a tale of our times. An artist whose life has been shaped by political upheaval and military conflicts, his practice both responds to and is affected by and the brutalities of global history, yet is not defined by it. His is a story that is still very much being written.