Luke Agada opens his first Los Angeles show at Roberts Projects on Sept. 28. It wasn't exactly a clear path for him to arrive here, growing up in Lagos and studing veterinary medicine before finding his way to painting. Taking inspiration everywhere from the color palette of his childhood to modernist masters like Picasso and Mondrian, Agada's abstract canvases are a contemporary surreal—at once familiar and not. Below, CULTURED sat down with the artist to talk about the question of home, certain colors becoming a safe haven, and the painters he turns time and again for inspiration.
