Image: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
The Wexner Center is presenting Temitayo Ogunbiyi’s first solo exhibition in Columbus, featuring drawings, paintings, sculptures, and installations that connect plants, people, communities, and layered histories from Nigeria to the Midwest.
The exhibition, 'Temitayo Ogunbiyi: You will have revelations along felled branches and longer roots/routes,' was organized by The Arts Club of Chicago, and its presentation at the Wexner Center is coordinated by Curator of Exhibitions Rebecca Lowery.
Ogunbiyi’s multimedia practice explores the relationship between the environment, two- and three-dimensional line, and representation. Her work responds to and forges dialogues between global current events, anthropological histories, and botanical cultures, while systems that capture, mediate, and direct the movement of people and matter are recurring subjects of investigation.
She built her first functional playground in 2018 and has made 14 playgrounds to date. Ogunbiyi lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria, with her young family.
