Moyo Ogundipe, born 1948 in Ado Ekiti, Nigeria, is “firmly anchored to the Yoruba traditional biosphere.” He studied at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) and at the Maryland Institute of College of Art, in Baltimore. For fifteen years he lived in the United States, as a political exile from Nigeria, but returned home in 2008. Ogundipe is primarily a painter of large colorful canvasses. Lots of pink & blue, green & yellow cover the surface, exhibiting a true horror vacui. The paintings illustrated here are mainly from the late 1990s to date, many from the artist’s collection. This is his first major retrospective with substantial essays.

Contents: Syntheses of cultures and sensibilities /O.I. Pogoson, A.O. Akande --Nigerian artists reinterpreting Hellenic images /Peju Layiwola --An Egungun aesthetic: a critical study of Moyo Ogundipe's paintings from the United States and Nigeria /Janine Sytsma --Forest of a thousand wonders: the mid-career paintings of Moyo Ogundipe /Niyi Osundare --Moyo Ogundipe: neo-nomadic art venture /Moyo Okediji --The ferment of Moyo Ogundipe's talent /Bode Sowande.

See also Ogundipe's earlier catalog: Kaleidoscopes: new work by Moyo Ogundipe by Janine Sytsma and others. Lagos, Nigeria: Terra Kulture Art Gallery, 2008.