Name: DIALECT
Start: 2022-08-06T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-08-06T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Mitochondria Gallery

DIALECT

Mitochondria Gallery, Houston, TX

You are cordially invited to the opening of "Dialect" A duo exhibition featuring two artist from South Africa and Nigeria.

Mitochondria Gallery

Mitochondria Gallery is pleased to present, “Dialect,” a duo exhibition featuring visual artists, Thembalathu Manqunyana (South Africa, b. 1984), and Olayikanmi Olawale (Nigeria, b. 1993). A Dialect is any particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group. In this exhibition, the artists present works that are created through spontaneous strokes yielding abstractive portraits and colorful images that immerse the viewer in the emotions of their creative process. The language of each artist is bold, striking, unyielding, and dimensional. Employing elements of cubism and neo-expressionism, the artists create visuals using various mediums such as acrylic, pastels, charcoals, and markers. This exhibition is a tribute to how our differences make us unique, and the beauty of individual expression.
Olayikanmi Olawale is a Nigerian contemporary artist. He studied painting in Yaba College of Technology Yaba, Lagos. His process can be classified as instinctive and organic, with the energetic and vibrant abstract paintings emerging from his nonjudgmental subconscious mind, brought together by feelings trying to find harmony in spontaneity. Olawale is a mixed media artist that typically employs acrylic paints, charcoal, oil bar, felt tip markers and pastels. His expressive style is characterized by dynamic lines, saturated colours, rapid and expressive brushstrokes heavily influenced by neoexpressionist artist such as Jean Michael Basquiat, George Baselitz and Richard Prince. The primitive face style is integrated with over simplistic images and symbols that represent fragmented thoughts and memories and display how a world of associated information unfolds. In many ways it is a visual narrative and a creatively abstract form of visual mind mapping which comes together to produce a labyrinth of layered images.
Thembalethu Manqunyana hails from Kwazakhele in Gqeberha previously known as Port Elizabeth. Thembalethu discovered his passion for art at a very young age and harnessed his skills of painting throughout his childhood and adolescent stage. He pursued his dreams by studying Arts and Design at Port Elizabeth College from 2005-2006. Thereafter he studied Fine Art (Sculpture) at Nelson Mandela University from 2007-2011. Thembalethu then proceeded with his art studies at Rhodes University from 2012-2013 attaining a Bachelor&#x27;s degree of Fine Arts in Politics, Psychology, Art History, Visual Culture and Xhosa. Inspired by African expressionism, cubism, neo-expressionism, and his lived experience, Thembalathe’s work is an extension of these non-conformist, free flowing movements.

Artist: Olayikanmi Olawale. Title: Resilience. 39 x 55 in. Acrylic, oil pastel, charcoal, and marker on canvas
. 2022

Artist :Thembalathu Manqunyana. Title: A Portrait of God of God’s. 60 x 70 in. Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and gold leaf on canvas
. 2022

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