Apr 04, 2024 - Sale 2664

Sale 2664 - Lot 229

Price Realized: $ 5,720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ADAMA DELPHINE FAWUNDU (1971 - )
Ancestral Songs III.

Color woodcut on cream Somerset paper, 2023. 610x457 mm; 24x18 inches, full margins. Signed, titled and numbered 5/30 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Alexis Nutini, Dos Tres Press. Published by Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, with the blind stamps lower left.

Adama Delphine Fawundu is a Sierra Leonean-American multi-disciplinary visual artist, working in photography, video, and textile to promote an understanding of African culture and heritage. Fawundu is also a Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University, and the co-founder and author of MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora – a journal and book representing female photographers of African descent. Her works have been presented in numerous exhibitions worldwide. Fawundu uses multiple mediums to create works that address ideas of identity, utopia, decolonization, and stories of the past, present and future.

Another impression of this print was recently included in Flowing Abstraction: Contemporary African Diaspora Printmaking, a group exhibition of prints created at Brandywine Workshop and Archives, at the Highpoint Center of Printmaking, Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 26 - March 2, 2024.

Consigned to support the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.