If you're going to be at Art Basel this weekend, don't miss out on the opportunity to support Black artists & creatives at prizmartfair.
Let us introduce you to David Thuku an Accomplished painter and mixed media artist hailing from Nakuru, Kenya.
Thuku’s current bodies of work rotate around movement, spaces (temporary spaces), how we relate with the spaces we occupy, and also how our identities change by being in specific spaces. He uses repeated motifs to indicate a spatial environment and character. The pattern has particular significance in his works. These create a sense of space, perspective, and comparison and signify continuity. He works in a variety of media, from conventional oil paint on canvas to a more recent focus on paper. He cuts and peels paper away to reveal carefully constructed images. These works on paper explore the nature of social structure, identity, and urban migration through semi-abstract portraits. They analyze the everyday space we occupy, peeling laye...
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