Artyrama, Africa’s premier online gallery focused on the sale of high quality, unique and often extraordinary contemporary art, has described the ongoing exhibition of watercolour works by Angela Isiuwe as a celebration of womanhood and a recognition of the contribution of the ‘average women’ in the world.
The web-based digital exhibition entitled ‘Self Portraits: A Celebration of Womanhood’ began on October 16 and will run till November 30, 2017 on artyramaonline.com.
“‘Self-Portrait’ describes Isiuwe’s celebration of the female body,” Artyrama said in a statement. “It features a series of 24 artworks consisting of acrylic and watercolour paintings made over a two-year period, each delicately narrating the remarkable story of women and womanhood.”
According to the online gallery, Isiuwe in the series of artworks on exhibition considers herself to be the average woman and uses the exhibition to recognize the contribution of all so-called ‘average women’ in the world – the housewife, career woman, the market woman with little education, the society ladies, and women in politics.
The exhibition further proposes that the spectrum of human evolution owes much of its progress to the understated strength of a woman, said Artyrama.
And for the Abraka, Delta State-born Isiuwe, who considers herself a minimalist artist using her art as a tool for social criticism and construction, “Every woman should be proud of herself, her body, her contributions to society and, most of all, her accomplishments modest or not – for it is in self-love that fulfilment lies.”
Angela Amami Isiuwe, who studied Art and Design at the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, creates her paintings using different mediums – acrylic, watercolour and sometimes oils. Her past exhibitions had focused on various themes, from animals to human, though there seems to be a prevailing trend of the female form in her works over the years.
CHUKS OLUIGBO
