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Artist Exhibitions:
HATCH presents: 'Jide Aje
Cafe 1923, Hamtramck, Michigan
November 2007
'Jide Aje: Familiar & Unknown.
Charles H. Wright Museum,
Detroit, Michigan
August-October 2008
National Black Fine Art Show
2009
Manhattan, New York
February 13-15 2009
HATCH presents: Abstract
Ephemera 1
an exhibition of paintings by
'Jide Aje
Cafe 1923, ...
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Artist Galleries:
National Conference of
Artists, Detroit, MI
J. Rainey Gallery, Detroit, MI
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Artist Reviews:
Motley City
Detroit's the story at a new
art show.
Curator Camille Ann Brewer
believes the revival and
relevance of the struggling
city of Detroit can be fueled
by creativity in the visual
arts. That's good news,
because the current show at
the Brandywine Workshop
provides plenty of...
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Collections:
National Gallery of Modern
Art, Lagos, Nigeria.
Lekan Fadina, Lagos, Nigeria
Rebecca Aikhomu, Lagos,
Nigeria
Ona Dike, Lagos, Nigeria
Wale Odeleye, Lagos, Nigeria
Millie Landrum, Detroit,
Michigan
Shirley Woodson, Detroit,
MIchigan
The Laura McIntyre Collection,
Hamtramck, Michigan
The Henry Ford Health Systems
Corporate Collection, Michigan
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Jide Aje
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About me:
I earned my tertiary degrees in the Nigeria and the United States. (Painting at University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria and Industrial Design at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri. The pursuit of careers as artist and designer has been necessitated, punctuated and even interrupted by movement and relocation. (Ile-Ife to Lagos, Lagos to Kansas City, Kansas City to Detroit)
The beginning of this decade allowed an unbroken span of time for exclusive devotion to art creation. I moved to Detroit to pursue a career in the automotive industry and eventually ended up moving to the City of Hamtramck.
Not only am I a creator of art, I’m also an audience, consumer and supporter of the arts, as those who seem to see me at “every” opening can attest.
About this show:
It is quite possible that I spend an inordinate amount of time, drawing, and thinking about drawing, designing and thinking about designing new paintings and works of art.
I am very fearful of boredom and being stuck in a rut in my creative activities, therefore I attempt to approach each session or day at the studio as freshly as possible.
Most days are spent making, creating, cutting objects that may end up as components or ideas in my work. My studio is therefore littered with these objects, (ephemera).
The piece titled Abstract Ephemera 1A09 particularly, is about making the lives of some of these objects permanent by infusing them into a new body of work.
West African cultural icons and motifs save as a stepping off point for many of the forms found in my creations. I rarely use them without some editing, so that they sometimes evoke the original and at other times are clearly in iteration of the mother symbol.
Beyond that there is rarely any religious significance or intent being communicated to the viewer.
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