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her name is Ndidi dike. she graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka ( elite univ. in Nigeria)  with a B.A in fine and applied art. She  is a visual artist working in sculpture and mixed media painting. She is one of Nigeria's leading female artists She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions using different media. She has sections shows an insight into new themes, such as slavery, new works and future exhibitions featuring new paintings.

She reinvented herself in the month of June 2004. The call was of vibrant colors.  Ndidi was propelled to paint with such urgency that it was almost fever pitched.

She heeded the passionate call of my creative instincts.

Some of her paintings are derived from Uli a traditional form of painting specific to the Igbo women from the Southeastern part of Nigeria, who paint on the body and walls of their homes. Uli is a monochromatic from of painting that derives its motifs from the linear configurations that occur in nature.

Other large canvases gave her the freedom to play with abstraction, positive and negative spaces as well as the lyrical and rhythmic (perhaps reminisces from my musical background) movement of my brush washes, strokes, colors, textures and form.

MCA

hey people, so we learning about contemporary art in my art class, everyone in my class had question about this topic, well, including me because i am very inquisitive.my teacher wanted us to have a deeper meaning and understanding of contemporary art so she took us  to the museum of contemporary art in chicago. this was a good experience because it wasn't like any museum that we have been to, it was different. small things (art) were big  deal in that museum. through visiting that museum i learnt that little things matter when you put a deeper meaning and thought to it. when you wonder why the artist made the art, what he was trying to communicate and the time period of which the art was made. i really recommend the museum for anyone who is interesting in taking a modern and deeper look at art. for me it was fun and interesting.

Art 21

Art 21

Season 1/2001
THEME	ARTIST	WORK	COMMENTS
PLACE	Margaret Kilgallen	printmaking	She liked to see hand painted sign and appreciates it the way it is.
SPIRITUALITY
IDENTITY	Louise Bourgeois	sculptural work	Bourgeois’ early sculpture was composed of groupings of abstract and organic shapes, often carved from wood
CONSUMPTION	Barbara Kruger	graphic designer, art director, and picture editor	Her  works makes the viewer in the struggle for power and control that her captions speak to

Season 2/2003
THEME	ARTIST	WORK	COMMENTS
STORIES	Trenton Doyle Hancock	Prints, painting and drawing	His works often repaint the biblical stories that the he learned as a child from his family and local church community
LOSS + DESIRE	Janine Antoni	Antoni’s work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture	Her primary tool for making art was her body.
TIME	Tim Hawkinson	He created twelve Robots in replica of himself.	His source of inspiration is his own body and what it means to make a self-portrait of this new or fictionalized body. He placed twelve Roberts in replica of himself.
HUMOR	Elizabeth Murray	painting	Her still life’s are reminiscent of paintings by masters such as Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse.

Season 3/2005
THEME	ARTIST	WORK	COMMENTS
POWER	Laylah Ali	paintings  that speaks of political resistance, social relationships, and betrayal.	Her most famous  paintings depicts the brown-skinned and gender-neutral Greenheads
MEMORY	Mike Kelly	Kelley’s work ranges from highly symbolic and ritualistic performance pieces to arrangements.	Kelley writes for art and music journals and has organized numerous exhibitions incorporating his own work.
PLAY	Jessica stockhold	Her work is energetic, cacophonous, and idiosyncratic, but close observation reveals formal decisions about color and composition, and a tempering of chaos with control	Her site-specific interventions and autonomous floor and wall pieces have been described as “paintings in space.
SITUTATIONS

Season 4/2007
THEME	ARTIST	WORK	COMMENTS
ROMANCE	Laurie Simmons	photographs and films with paper dolls	She has received many awards, including the Roy Lichtenstein Residency in the Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome (2005)
PROTEST	Nancy Spero	unapologetic statement against the pervasive abuse of power, Western privilege, and male dominance	her work often draws its imagery and subject matter from current and historical events
ECOLOGY	Ursula von Rydingsvard	Sculptures that’s shows human hands	an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1994)
PARADOX	Catherine Sullivan	films and live performances	She has had majorexhibitions at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2007)

Season 5/2009
THEME	ARTIST	WORK	COMMENTS
COMPASSION	Carrie Mae Weems	Storyteller-okes, songs, rebukes	Weems’s work has appeared in major exhibitions at Savannah College of Art and Design (2008)
FANTASY	Mary Heilmann	abstract paintings, ceramics, and furniture	her paintings are like meditations or icons
TRANSFORMATION	Paul McCarthy	performances	His work has been shown in major exhibitions at California College of the Arts
SYSTEMS	John Baldessari	photomontage, painting, and language	His work has been shown in more than 120 solo exhibitions and 300 group exhibitions