Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze
‘In her drawings, Amanze invites viewers into her ongoing construction of an expansive and timeless alternate world inhabited by a cohort of beings who move through it freely. These beings exist rather than perform, embracing the mundane, the non-specific and the fluid as ultimate freedoms … Amanze’s interest in magic, play, architecture and design folds together in a way of working that relies on calculation and spontaneity. With a commitment to working with paper and drawing as her medium, Amanze transforms the two-dimensional static of paper into a limitless plane of possibility filled with depth, intersection, collision and overlap … Each drawing is a sliver of a whole; an out-of-sequence piece to a narrative with no beginning or seeming end.’1
- Goodman Gallery. (2018) ruby onyinyechi amanze / there are even moonbeams we can unfold, [Online] Available: http://www. goodman-gallery.com/exhibitions/894 [2018, December 7].
Provenance
Tiwani Contemporary
Exhibitions
Tiwani Contemporary, 16 Little Portland St, Marylebone, London W1W 8BP, UK | Mutations | 2015.California African American Museum, 600 State Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90037, USA | The Ease of Fiction | January 2016 - January 2017.
Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA | Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco | 2017.
Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC (CAM Raleigh) - 409 W Martin St, Raleigh, NC 27603, USA | Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC (CAM Raleigh) | 2017.
Publications
Clint McLean | "Artist in Wonderland" | Werte International | 2019.Deutsche Bank Art Magazine | "A Third Space: ruby onyinyechi amanze's drawings at Freize New York" | Deutsche Bank Art Magazine | 2019.
Cam Raleigh | "The Ease of Fiction" | Cam Raleigh | March 3, 2016.
Museum of the African Diaspora | "The Ease Of Fiction Resource Guide" | Museum of the African Diaspora | April 26, 2016.
California African American Museum, Los Angeles | "The Ease of Fiction" | Contemporary & | October 19, 2016.
Dexter Wimberly | "‘The Ease of Fiction:’ Valerie Kabov In Conversation with Dexter Wimberly" | Art Africa | June 2016.
"In Conversation: The Ease of Fiction," | Art + Practice | October 20,2016.
Negarra A. Kudumu | "“The Ease of Fiction”: four contemporary African artists at California African American Museum" | Art Radar | February 13, 2017.