Art
Original Painting by Ngene Mwaura
- Item Number
- 141
- Estimated Value
- 500 USD
- Leading Bid
- 100 USD
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
This 31"W x 39"H piece was painted LIVE at Bottom Floor at Bar Pico. Ngene really has to be one of the most passionate likable, warm, devoted, and talented of course, artists NextAid has ever had the pleasure to work with.
Ngene Mwaura is a third-generation artist from a family of writers and storytellers. He comes from Kikuyu, a farmland fifteen miles outside of Nairobi, Kenya. Unlike his father, Mwaura Mureithi (author of "The Adventures of Thiga"), Ngene has found illustration to be his truest form of storytelling.
The succession of his work is a timeline of his perception and experiences to date. His work takes you from the farmlands of Africa, through the art world of Europe, and most recently to Los Angeles, where he's working on his latest work, "Masks," an expression of what he thinks the African Mask could have evolved into if the African tradition hadn't progressively dissipated.
He has studied under several artists, including Ndasuunye Shikongeni, Fred Mutebi, Henry Mujunga, Rafael Zarza, and Joyce Wellman. His expertise is in silk-screening, etching, acetate printing, carton printing and woodblock printing. You can find Ngene's work in the collections of the Commercial Bank of Africa and the Dutch Embassy, in Kenya.
http://ngenemwaura.com
Item Special Note
Winner has to be based in the continental US for shipping reasons.
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