Today I saw Yinka Shonibare speak. I've always noticed his work in museums as quite interesting and richly complex. Well, he was a fantastic speaker! Shonibare currently lives and works in London, where he has gained international attention by exploring issues of race and class through a range of media that includes sculpture, painting, photography, and installation art. His works, simultaneously innocent and subversive, address a range of cultural and historical issues and, in the process, blur the boundaries of design, ethnography, and contemporary art.
Definitely go check him out. He has a show on view now at the Stephen Friedman Gallery in London until this Friday the 20th of November!!!!
