Njideka Akunyili Crosby's "Coming Back to See Through, Again" @ David Zwirner Los Angeles
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Still You Bloom in This Land of No Gardens, 2021. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen. © Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner.
David Zwirner presents Coming Back to See Through, Again, an exhibition of new and recent work by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, at the gallery’s Los Angeles location. This will be Akunyili Crosby’s first solo exhibition with David Zwirner. The exhibition will travel to David Zwirner’s New York gallery, opening in September 2023.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Potential, Displaced, 2021. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen. © Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner.
Born in Nigeria, Akunyili Crosby moved to the United States as a teenager in 1999, and her work reflects her hybrid cultural background and experiences. In her methodically layered compositions, Akunyili Crosby combines painted depictions of people, places, and subjects from her life with photographic transfers derived from her personal image archive as well as Nigerian magazines and other mass media sources.
The works that will be on view in Los Angeles, where the artist works and lives, bring multiple places and temporalities together within single compositions. In these works, Akunyili Crosby uses doorways, screens, posters, and windows as devices that open to other worlds, such as private interior spaces, lush external gardens, and bustling Nigerian markets.
Coming Back to See Through, Again is on view through July 29 at David Zwirner LA, 616 North Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90004