Okey Ofomata: You Should Get Some Sleep
@ Anthony Gallery
1360 West Lake Street Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, September 25th, from 5PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 1st
Okey Ofomata’s paintings juxtapose anxiety, chance, and circumstance. Working in oil and acrylic, he creates his pieces with photographic compositions using thick and heavy brush strokes that result in a dense, textural surface. Ofomata’s imagery ranges from pop culture to personal memory. As he observes the world around him, re-occurring themes of sports, body movement, social gatherings, and fleeting moments in restaurants appear. By situating his subjects within the familiar, Ofomata imbues ordinary spaces with a weight of surrealism and allegory.
In Ofomata’s work there is a duality between accelerated movement and the human pleasures of stillness. Dark, rich colors fill his canvases in his storytelling as he immerses the viewer into figurative abstraction. Ofomata constructs a narrative around the struggle and determination that accompany the body’s typical fight-or-flight response, guiding visitors along each subject’s journey.
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