New York’s Museum of Modern Art has replaced Andy Warhol’s kitschy cow wallpaper with striking works by Conshohocken’s Odili Donald Odita, writes Bedatri D. Choudhury for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
A collection of bright, angular shapes now welcomes museum visitors as the vivid geometry plays Tetris with their eyes. Similar paintings are on throughout the museum’s first floor as part of Songs from Life, an exhibit featuring Odita’s paintings.
Museumgoers could previously see works by Odita, a professor of painting at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, in 2021. He showcased his work at the Walls of Change exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
For his latest exhibit, Odita, Nigerian by birth, has created a welcoming space within the museum.
“My parents have said to me that they were welcomed by the people of this country and that people were generous to them,” said Odita. “I want to talk about this in a synonymous way; what it means to come as a stranger, or the one who wants to visit the sanctuary of art, and know that this is a safe place for you to look at the same thing with other people.”
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