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Summer Nuptials in My Precarious Kingdom Painting

Abi Salami

United States

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 30 W x 24 H x 0.8 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

This piece was inspired by my boyfriend who has been my rock as I struggle with depression, anxiety and chasing my art career dreams. The recurring motif of the impossibly stacked chairs is again present in this painting, representing how unstable I sometimes feel because of my mental illness. The male subject looks wearily at the viewer as he holds on to the handles of his bike and the female subject looks defiantly at the viewer while wearing a strange outfit consisting of a suit jacket and an African print dress. The suit jacket represents my internal struggle with leaving Corporate America to chase my art career and the African skirt represents the conflict I've had to deal with my Nigerian parents not completely understanding why I would leave a respectable job in Corporate America to become a mere artist.

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Painting:

Acrylic on Canvas

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

30 W x 24 H x 0.8 D in

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Abi Salami is a self-taught artist who creates large-scale surrealist works that explore her experiences as a Nigerian immigrant and Black woman in the United States. Through the use of a personal visual lexicon made up of symbols, she explores topics such as memory, mental health and race. Based in Dallas, Texas, she earned a Masters in Professional Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin and worked in Corporate America for almost a decade before committing to painting full-time. Since then, her artwork has graced the walls of esteemed institutions such as Montresso Art Foundation in Morocco, and Galerie Droste in Germany, Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas, C24 Gallery and Field Projects in New York City, the Women’s Museum and the African American Museum of Art in Dallas. She was the winner of the 2021 Hopper Prize. She was selected as a candidate of the Saatchi Art 2020 Rising Stars under 35 Class and a 2021 New Voices Top 100 Artists. She and her work have been featured on the Washington Post, New York Times, Artland, Artsy, D Magazine, Glasstire and Patron Magazine.

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