Away from Africa

Detail Cancer and Contours , 2011,  Discarded plastic bags ( Plasto-yarns )  and bottles, twine and wood. 39 x 41 x 8 inches Skoto Gallery has unfailingly shown high quality art in New York since 1992. The gallery’s specialty is African contemporary art, and Skoto was the first to provide an NYC space to El Anatsui, for example, whose art is now displayed in many museums worldwide. The current exhibition, on view through November 2, 2013, is called Transmogrification : works by Ifeoma Anyaeji. It is a very original and also timely exhibition using surprising materials for the three-dimensional art and sculpture. Ifeoma Anyaeji Ifeoma, born and raised in Benin City, Nigeria, studied painting at the University of Benin in her hometown, as an undergraduate. However, sculpture was always her passion, and 3 years ago she won a Ford Foundation Fellowship award and attended Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri, USA). She eschewed traditional materi...

Article about Vickie's program in Peruvian media Vickie Frémont was invited to travel to Peru in the Fall of 2011 by the  Alliance Française  (French Cultural Association), to teach in various Peruvian cities how to create art from recycled items, or even trash. It was a whirlwind trip, and so well-received that she has been once again invited, for the Month of the Environment. She will be traveling  to  Chiclayo, Trujillo, Arequipa, Iquitos, Huancayo and Cusco, and also will teach  a short program in two universities, in Arequipa and Trujillo. Article about Vickie's program in Peruvian media  Below are a few photos from the Fall 2011 tour. Trujillo Mall event Collage made in Iquitos Trujillo Mall event Paper doll

Since the  October  2010 post about Vickie Frémont, jewelry designer and recycling artist of Cameroonian descent, much has happened. The blog post caught the attention of Columbia's Alliance Fran ç aise , which took interest in her recycling work, as a sustainability conference was being hosted in Bogota; she has been invited for a residency in Peru in the fall. In the meantime, she exhibited at several fairs, including the Bastille Festival in New York City in July. In the meantime, here are a few photos of her jewelry, modeled by Myriam Maxo , a designer herself, of Caribbean descent.