Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze

Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze (born 1982), is a Nigerian-born British-American artist noted for drawings and works on paper which focus on cultural hybridity or "post-colonial non-nationalism." In addition to being an artist, she has also worked as a teacher and curator. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Quotes This is a period of their lives filled with awkwardness and bodily insecurity. In engaging with them, we can explore resistance and resolution through those bodies.” We aim to speak to the art world in their language, much of the time. And yet, we also exist to reach those not in the art world, the tourists and passersby who might be intrigued by the playfulness and color. We’re trying to draw them in. "2017 Is the Year of Aggression for This Annual Performance Art Series". Vice Media LLC. Retrieved 20 March 2025. In every studio, I always cover the table with brown kraft paper. It's partly to protect the drawing but also so I can have somewhere to scribble down words (which i love almost as much as I love drawings) Ink and graphite. Photo transfers and glitter. For the most part, my material notices are very analogue. Drawing can be many things, but for me still incorporates a pencil on paper. All of my supplies can fit in my tote bag." From the minute I sit down to the minute I wrap up for the day, I stay with my headphones on, even if no one is around. It's always music, but today it was Quadron's album, Avalanche. McMahon, Katherine (8 August 2015). "Habitat: Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze". ARTnews. Retrieved 20 March 2025. I think and know that religion is not race-specific,” Our love embraces and sets free the best that is in us now and in the future. Together we are our better selves. Museum, The Jewish (5 February 2018). "Black History Month: Picturing Black Love within the Jewish Experience". The Jewish Museum. Retrieved 20 March 2025. There’s no linear time in my mind. In some ways, we are living through the creation of soon-to-be ‘mythologies’; the futuristic feels present in the now. Time seems so warped and unreal and I intentionally want my drawings to likewise feel a bit out of sequence. Does your work happen in process, or do you approach the page with a plan? Once I’ve started work on a drawing, I leave it overnight so it’s ready for me in the morning. Drawings are notorious for rearranging themselves in the night! We have a conversation (the drawing and I) to see where to go next. New ideas flow mid-way through working. There are things I can’t know until my hands are moving. In an interview Drawing was my first artistic expression, as it is for many people. I took to photography and textiles as a student, then, in grad school, I returned to the page, using typewriter ribbon. I didn’t realize I was drawing at the time: it wasn’t until 2006 that I consciously made ‘drawings’. I’ve done nothing but draw since. I call everything I do a drawing. It feels like we’re married. In an interview It’s an ongoing love affair. The paper section at New York Central Art Supply (sadly, no longer) was like heaven. I used to work on handmade Japanese papers. Super thin, translucent, cream, slightly textured, with long fibers. Then I craved some smoothness and weight. My current papers are 250, 335 and 640 gms: pretty heavy in the paper world. I spent some time working with fabric too. Both fabric and paper hold memory; they absorb information and they maintain a charge. The paper is an active participant in the drawing process. I’m not drawing on paper. I’m drawing with it. In an interview External Links Category:Living people Category:Women artists from Nigeria Category:Women born in the 1980s Category:Nigerian-American artists