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Adorn

Odili Donald Odita

Adorn

2018

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Odili Donald Odita

Adorn

2018

Physical Qualities Acrylic latex paint on aluminum-core fabricated wood panel with reconstituted wood veneer, 92 × 52 in. (233.7 × 132.1 cm.)
Credit Line The Joyner / Giuffrida Collection
Object Number 2021.257
“I was thinking of the painting as a body decorated and ‘adorned’ with color and light. It could be a body, or the painting could exist as a body given love and respect through the process of adornment.” —Odili Donald Odita, 2019
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2022

Artist

Odili Donald Odita

born Enugu, Nigeria 1966

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