Who we are Painting

Born in Badagry, the coastal town of Lagos in 1991, Samuel Vittu believes that the face is laced with diverse stories. His work constantly interrogate the exterior of the face as an entry point into larger issues in the society with the use of acrylic, oil and charcoal. He fuses abstraction, Anthropomorphism and portraiture, he employs bulgy eyes as windows and zoom lens into the happenings, experiences, thoughts, and crisis that goes on in the mind of his subjects. As a practicing artist, Samuel works chiefly across painting and drawing. Working with charcoal, oil, acrylic and canvas has been his chosen media to register and visualize his inspiration, ideas and imaginations. The resulting artworks from his usually mixed-media experimentations are figuratively conceptual, suggestive, evocative and formalistic. He has participated in exhibitions within the country over time. Samuel lives and work in Lagos, Nigeria.