Abe Odedina, Ladder of dreams, 2024
One of my favorites was Abe Obedina at Ed Cross, his abstractly rounded figures, reminiscent of Edward Burra and Beryl Cook, depicted in dirty scuffed colors. His characters felt caught in the act, Michael Fried might say that they felt absorbed. One somewhat moving painting at the far end of the booth was long and skinny and showed a ladder reaching upwards to the heavens, Black feet hanging from the top. Another featured a suited man thigh-deep in water holding a golden-scaled fish.
