CHRIS OFILI

Best known for intricately constructed works featuring beadlike dots of paint, elephant dung, and images culled from popular media, Ofilis unique lexicon combines African culture, Western art history, and hip-hop music, spanning a wide variety of sources which in clude the Bible, Zimbabwean cave paintings, Blaxploitation films, and William Blakes poems This richly illustrated volume surveys two decades of artworks that meld figuration, abstraction, and decoration to yield hybrid jux tapositions of high and low culture. . Animated by e...[Read more]