The first retrospective of the legendary Nigerian artist — and the first time his work is shown in San Diego — will be on view at San Diego State University in an exhibition and program with playwright and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka.
Working as a studio artist for over 60 years, Nigerian artist Bruce Onobrakpeya is driven by curiosity.
“Bruce is a trained painter. His formal training is in painting. And somehow he’s become an icon of printmaking. And this is largely as the result of the artist’s nature, the artist’s very curious nature. He’s a very experimental artist,” said Kennii Ekundayo, an independent curator based in Lagos, Nigeria.
“That’s how Bruce is. And I think because of this nature, it really helped to build him to become an artist of reckoning, if you will. And that’s what we see through the years. His ability to be fluid about art, about his creative process, has allowed for him to experience different strategies of art, of artistic growth, of artistic development.”
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