Photograph of Artist RASHEED AMODU
RASHEED AMODU
Lagos, Southwest - Nigeria



Original Artworks (20)

Rasheed Amodu; Gran Pa Mementoes, 2001, Original Painting Oil, 72 x 36 inches. Artwork description: 241 Gran PaaEURtms Mementoes: Forever in Vogue is an Onaism styled rendering in oil on textured canvas painting, which is focused on traditional embroidered Yoruba attires that are everlasting cultural symbols in forms and finishing. This is a celebration of the forever in vogue traditional Yoruba senior ...
Rasheed Amodu
Original Oil Painting, 2001
72 x 36 inches (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; Stages Of Womanhood, 2000, Original Assemblage, 31 x 73 inches. Artwork description: 241 Stages of Womanhood is an abstract creative assemblage of objects such as beads and different fabrics coupled with oil colours on canvas to examine the different stages of womanhood. It is a visual documentary on the story of a lady, from childhood to womanhood. Beads were symbolically ...
Rasheed Amodu
Original Assemblage, 2000
31 x 73 inches (78.7 x 185.4 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; Yemoja The Mermaid Supreme, 1998, Original Pastel Oil, 36 x 72 inches. Artwork description: 241 This is a realistic Onaism based acrylic on canvas visual documentary on Yemoja  The Mermaid Supreme . She is represented herein as a majestic mermaid because that is the belief of many in traditional Yoruba religion. When we were kids, we believed in the legend of Yemoja as ...
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Original Oil Pastel, 1998
36 x 72 inches (91.4 x 182.9 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; Heavens Gate, 1997, Original Pastel Oil, 36 x 72 inches. Artwork description: 241 HeavenaEURtms Gate is an abstract acrylic on canvas painting. This is a subconscious recreation of a glimpse of HeavenaEURtms gate that I saw in a coma which I lapsed into in a football field accident in the early 1980s. The brilliant whites and other soothing ...
Rasheed Amodu
Original Oil Pastel, 1997
36 x 72 inches (91.4 x 182.9 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; Sacred Precinct, 2011, Original Assemblage, 39 x 54 inches. Artwork description: 241 Sacred Precinct: Divine Consultation is an Onaism styled assemblage on board. Ifa divination tray  Opon Ifa  was creatively recreated with different objects and icons to achieve this divine piece. The objects employed in the work are pens, pencils, plastic tops and covers, tin covers and cases, wrist- ...
Rasheed Amodu
Original Assemblage, 2011
39 x 54 inches (99.1 x 137.2 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; World Peace Conference, 2005, Original Assemblage, 63 x 26 inches. Artwork description: 241 World Peace Conference is an abstract assemblage on board work. Objects which include beads, leather purse, plastic and tin covers  cases, among others, were arranged and glued on board in an oval rectangular conference format to create an illusion of a United Nations congress in progress. Oil ...
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Original Assemblage, 2005
63 x 26 inches (160.0 x 66.0 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; Politician Preacher And Orator, 2008, Original Assemblage, 53 x 16 inches. Artwork description: 241 Politician, Preacher and Orator is a symbolic assemblage of different sizes of plastic bottle covers, tooth paste covers, and empty shoe polish as well as other empty tin and plastic containers were employed as the masses or crowds in the work. A pair of wrist- watches, one ...
Rasheed Amodu
Original Assemblage, 2008
53 x 16 inches (134.6 x 40.6 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; Good Food Or Junk Food, 2011, Original Assemblage, 38 x 26 inches. Artwork description: 241 Good Food or Junk Food is an assemblage of plastic spoons, match sticks, plastic bottle covers, pens, compact disk, tooth brushes, among others, aided with acrylic colours on board to discuss the topic on good healthy foods against junk unhealthy foods. This is an abstract rendering that ...
Rasheed Amodu
Original Assemblage, 2011
38 x 26 inches (96.5 x 66.0 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; Epa Mask Evolution, 2011, Original Assemblage, 26 x 38 inches. Artwork description: 241 In the assemblage on board, Epa Mask Evolution, electrical  mechanical rubber fan belts, electric boiling rings, electric phone chargers, remote control, phone case, shaving sticks, tin and plastic covers case as well as plastic stick were creatively arranged and glued on board. Acrylic colours were aesthetically added ...
Rasheed Amodu
Original Assemblage, 2011
26 x 38 inches (66.0 x 96.5 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; Mrs And Mr Beautiful, 2011, Original Assemblage, 54 x 29 inches. Artwork description: 241 Wooden frame, phone chargers, lighters, tin fork and covers, broken plastic comb, bangle and broken plastic pegs, among others, coupled with acrylic colours for aesthetics finesse were assembled and glued on board to compose Mrs. and Mr. Beautiful: Beauty   The Beast. This is a metaphor on the ...
Rasheed Amodu
Original Assemblage, 2011
54 x 29 inches (137.2 x 73.7 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; Higher Court Judges, 2011, Original Assemblage, 53 x 23 inches. Artwork description: 241 This  Higher Court Judges  is a creative assemblage of objects, which include ropes, wrist- watches, markers, pens, plastic spoons and fork, plastic bottle tops and covers, shaving sticks and plugs, among others, were glued to a board and beautified with acrylic colours in an abstract visual discourse ...
Rasheed Amodu
Original Assemblage, 2011
53 x 23 inches (134.6 x 58.4 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; Birds Of Paradise, 2018, Original Painting Acrylic, 48 x 28 inches. Artwork description: 241 The acrylic on canvas painting, Birds of Paradise, is a unique attempt at creatively representing real and mythical birds in an aesthetics finesse with ease. Birds of Paradise are symbolic mythical birds, uncanny beautifully feathered creatures, strictly at home in Paradise. But, they occasionally visit our world ...
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Original Acrylic Painting, 2018
48 x 28 inches (121.9 x 71.1 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; From My Window, 2017, Original Painting Acrylic, 48 x 36 inches. Artwork description: 241 From my Window: Lagos Island to Mainland is a realistic romantic acrylic on canvas landscape painting that speaks for itsaEURtm self without much ado. A rare landscape from my oeuvre of part of Lagos Island showing two of the three bridges that linked the Island to the ...
Rasheed Amodu
Original Acrylic Painting, 2017
48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; Lagos Island To Mainland, 2019, Original Painting Acrylic, 60 x 49 inches. Artwork description: 241 Lagos Island to Mainland: Three Gateways is an acrylic on canvas landscape painting of parts of Lagos Island with Lagos Mainland in the horizon. One of my answers to the question on whether I do landscape on big canvas or not by art critics and patrons among ...
Rasheed Amodu
Original Acrylic Painting, 2019
60 x 49 inches (152.4 x 124.5 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; Family Treasure, 2020, Original Painting Acrylic, 32 x 48 inches. Artwork description: 241 Family Treasure is an Onaism styled acrylic on canvas painting that dwells on the importance of family standard and values. Family Treasure was inspired by the love and bond that exist in a good family and home. The painting captures the essence of joy, peace and harmony ...
Rasheed Amodu
Original Acrylic Painting, 2020
32 x 48 inches (81.3 x 121.9 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; Amala Ojuelegba Plc, 2020, Original Painting Acrylic, 48 x 36 inches. Artwork description: 241 It, Amala Ojuelegba Plc. , is a realistic Onaism styled figure dominated acrylic on canvas landscape painting on the topic of good food. This is a realistic visual document on the processing of Amala, a popular Yoruba food eaten with ewedu, vegetable, egusi or any other suitable soup ...
Rasheed Amodu
Original Acrylic Painting, 2020
48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; We Will Survive, 2020, Original Painting Acrylic, 36 x 48 inches. Artwork description: 241 This  We will Survive  is an Onaism styled acrylic on canvas quasi- abstract painting. We will Survive is a symbolic visual commentary on mankindaEURtms relentless ability to survive different adversities across frontiers from the known to the unknown in our world. It dwells on manaEURtms ...
Rasheed Amodu
Original Acrylic Painting, 2020
36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; The Perfect Couple, 2004, Original Painting Oil, 36 x 48 inches. Artwork description: 241 The Perfect Couple is an oil on canvas painting which is focused on the unique power of love. Love can occur in strange and bizarre forms. It can be normal and natural in most cases, but the unexpected do arises every now and then as far as aEUR~...
Rasheed Amodu
Original Oil Painting, 2004
36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; Love To Love, 2010, Original Painting Acrylic, 36 x 24 inches. Artwork description: 241 Love to Love is an acrylic on canvas quasi- abstract painting on one of the most compelling natural forces in the world, Love. To love someone and be loved in return by the person is one of manaEURtms greatest desires which is the inspiration behind aEURoeLove ...
Rasheed Amodu
Original Acrylic Painting, 2010
36 x 24 inches (91.4 x 61.0 cm)
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Rasheed Amodu; Gone Twosome, 2008, Original Painting Acrylic, 24 x 36 inches. Artwork description: 241 This  Gone Twosome  is an acrylic on canvas abstract painting on self- preservation and survival. It has an Ona stylistic bent with mostly traditional Yoruba African forms and motifs in tow. A stylized face of a bird of prey with her eyes focused on her intended meal, ...
Rasheed Amodu
Original Acrylic Painting, 2008
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
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Artist Statement

RASHEED AMODU Artist Statement
I started as a professional artist in 1985, before adding a Fine Arts degree, specializing in Painting, in 1991. One of my major aims is to wed creativity and artistic rendering in my artwork leading to diverse range of themes in my oeuvre. My graphic art background in Realism and my degree aided abstractions as well as impressionistic and expressionistic tendencies are often reflected in my artwork, which include my drawings, paintings, mixed media, and assemblages. I draw with pencil, charcoal, penink, and gouache on paper or embossed cards. My oil or acrylic paintings are usually on canvas. I do mixed media on paper, embossed card, and canvas. My assemblages are works produced with commonplace objects or personal items arranged and fixed on hardboard before being painted with oil or acrylic for aesthetic finesse. Some of the objects employed in my assemblages are beads, fabrics, combs, watches, straps, chains, cards, belts, spoons, forks, pens, ropes, lighters, shaving sticks, plugs, and bottle covers.
The sources of the images I used in my works are from my society, literature on African art and foreign cultures as well as personal synthesis. I employed my artwork to visually document the past and the present, thereby creating a link between the historical, modern and contemporary times. I want my audience to feel the unique African aura robed in a global fabric because Art crosses all boundaries. Originality is one of my creative goals. My peculiar aesthetic qualities will announce my works to the world as remarkable works of art....

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