The Emergency Room Artist
With so much suffering and pain in our world, with disappointing leadership crises, deteriorating climate, increasing authoritarianism and inequality, many have come to regard hope with skepticism and disdain. However, I believe hope is so central to the human condition, so foundational to our bodies, minds and souls that a work of art that does …
Today is the 14th day of May 2022, marking the end of this art exhibition in Transcorp Hilton, Abuja. The Exhibition theme, “The shadows that Follow Me” was inspired by the hunt for me by a group of people that I may have unwittingly offended in my last exhibition in Jos. Most of the artworks in …
Shadows That Follow Me: Dark Forms and Patterns in my Palettes – By Ernest Agoba Read More »
Art: Fighting With Forms and Colours Protest Art Exhibition by Ernest Obukx Agoba in MOTNA, Jos, Nigeria Today, a strong spirit of guilt welled up inside of me. I am probably not doing enough to express the anguish of people in my country. Things were going terribly wrong. I should have done something to either …
What Have We Done? – Diaries of Ernest Agoba, an Outraged Professor and Visual Artist Read More »
“Ile-Ibinu”, Digital Art by Ernest Agoba Ernest Agoba’s startling digital art exhibition in Motna, Jos, might not be for the faint hearted. In a period of four years, after my last exhibition in Jos, Nigeria, titled, Cracks on the Wall, I slumped into some kind of creative inertia. I managed to sell, for survival purposes, …
Dangerous Times: Nigeria as Observed by an Embattled Artist Read More »
“Deep Cracks” Digital Art Exhibition by Ernest Agoba Moved by the Events of the Past The cracks on the walls were carved in by guns, knives, and the blood of the innocent dead. I remember the day I vowed to make protest paintings, I was rebuffed by a former university colleague who said protest paintings …
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