38.1 x 35.6 x 27.9 cm
The gallery is excited to introduce Layo Bright (b. 1991, Lagos, Nigeria) who will present a series of new ceramic and pottery plaster portrait works in the gallery’s viewing room. A multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the migrant experience throughout the African diaspora, Bright’s sculptures present visual compositions that address themes of culture, identity, family, and collective West African histories. Each distinctive work is cast from her own face, as well as her mother’s face, dipped in gold pigment and adorned with gele fabric which she carefully fastens in the style of a headwrap and Ghana-Must-Go bags sculpted into leaves. Together, Patterson and Bright operate in the figurative realm, using novel material interventions as a means to challenge notions of representation, visibility, and perception, arriving at new avenues for reflection regarding the formation and influence of legacy.
