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Maria Ogedengbe, MFA studiO. @studio.maria.o images © Maria Ogedengbe

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Pillow Talk instant sculpture expanding intimate chat with my beloved by award winning artist, Maria Ogedengbe - MFA Yale ten 22 x 30 inch pieces of satin or sheer printed textile - sewn together, with wall mount approx. 3/8 inches deep when collapsed 2021-2025 (image: mounted on wall, © Maria Ogedengbe)

Artist Statement: LINK

Purchase the unique work, Pillow Talk, directly from the artist through Artspace or via this LINK

included by special invitation in 2025 KANSAS CITY FLATFILE + DIGITALFILE June 20 - September 27 =25th anniversary celebration= Emily & Todd Voth Artspace Kansas City Art Institute 16 East 43rd Street Kansas City, MO 64111

Opening Reception Friday, June 20, 6-8 pm

Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12:00 - 5:00 pm

Parking: Parking is available in the Artspace parking lot, the KCAI Fiber Warehouse parking lot next door, at 4218 Walnut Street, and along the street.

To schedule a group visit, call 816-802-3571.

For further information: www.kcai.edu/artspace

Artspace, a cherished venue in Kansas City, has been a cornerstone for the contemporary art scene in the region since 1999.

5/27/25 - Artspace named for Emily & Todd Voth: LINK

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Pillow Talk instant sculpture expanding intimate chat with my beloved by award winning artist, Maria Ogedengbe - MFA Yale ten 22 x 30 inch pieces of satin or sheer printed textile - sewn together, with wall mount approx. 3/8 inches deep when collapsed 2021-2025 (image: semi-collapsed and set on table, © Maria Ogedengbe)

Artist Statement: LINK

Purchase the unique work, Pillow Talk, directly from the artist through Artspace or via this LINK

included by special invitation in 2025 KANSAS CITY FLATFILE + DIGITALFILE June 20 - September 27 =25th anniversary celebration= Emily & Todd Voth Artspace Kansas City Art Institute 16 East 43rd Street Kansas City, MO 64111

Opening Reception Friday, June 20, 6-8 pm

Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12:00 - 5:00 pm

Parking: Parking is available in the Artspace parking lot, the KCAI Fiber Warehouse parking lot next door, at 4218 Walnut Street, and along the street.

To schedule a group visit, call 816-802-3571.

For further information: www.kcai.edu/artspace

Artspace, a cherished venue in Kansas City, has been a cornerstone for the contemporary art scene in the region since 1999.

5/27/25 - Artspace named for Emily & Todd Voth: LINK

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pineapple hairstyle & hoodie (detail view) scalable vector image accepting commissions for "digital painting" portraits from original photo by the artist

finished artwork available as a high quality archival (pigment) print from the artist's studio, or as a stretched canvas print

what is a scalable vector image ? "vector" is a type of digital imagery that's based in math, with vector imagery quality of detail is retained in larger sized prints

MORE INFO note: on website photos the artist's signature serves as a watermark to help protect original work in the online environment

image © Maria Ogedengbe

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Easter in Kansas City (detail view) scalable vector image accepting commissions for "digital painting" portraits from original photo by the artist

finished artwork available as a high quality archival (pigment) print from the artist's studio, or as a stretched canvas print

what is a scalable vector image ? "vector" is a type of digital imagery that's based in math, with vector imagery quality of detail is retained in larger sized prints

MORE INFO note: on website photos the artist's signature serves as a watermark to help protect original work in the online environment

image © Maria Ogedengbe

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We are so excited for the release of this ebook as it shows off the high color of the artwork true to life. (I worked at length with a Philadelphia printer on the announcement card for our wife, the work is a kind of sapphire blue that's hard to capture in print.) The written content has been updated for this Kindle edition, too.

LINK: our wife • Calabash Buoys

Named "#1 new release in Pictorial Travel" by Amazon.

Available for sale as instant download. Currently $0 on Kindle Unlimited (free Kindle Unlimited trial for 1st time users, access millions of ebooks: LINK). This ebook works on an Amazon Fire tablet as well as on the Kindle app - available for most every type of tablet, computer, and phone.

reader comment: "'our wife,' a beautiful symbol of marriage, uses painted fabric to reflect the African custom of bride and groom attired in the same printed motif! 'Calabash Buoys' is also a fanciful idea using decorated gourds floating in a Venetian canal, an appropiate idea for a marine display!"

our wife • Calabash Buoys tells the story of my artwork on display in Venice in 2024 concurrent with the Biennale Arte, the "olympics of the art world." Be inspired and recommend our wife • Calabash Buoys to people who like art and/or ebooks ~ Purchases, reviews, and Kindle Unlimited reads elevate our wife • Calabash Buoys in search rankings and help others to discover it. Thank you ! Maria Ogedengbe

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book orders: our wife & Calabash Buoys "high-color artwork and interventions in Venice, Italy–based at Casa Artom, along the Grand Canal–that muse on extraordinarily novel concepts to do with Africa"

($9 + tax, shipping)

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Calabash Buoys

@ Casa Artom in Venezia, Italia

LINK to more info book: our wife, Calabash Buoys, with remarks by Professor Sule James reception with short artist's talk & refreshments Wed May 22, 2024 at 6pm image © Maria Ogedengbe

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our wife musing on a women's hand-printed batik headscarf (gélé) from a Nigerian wedding "uniform" object-based painting, 20 yards(studio image for announcement card)

@ Casa Artom in Venezia, Italia ~ by invitation & visiting hours Wednesday mornings LINK to more info book: our wife, Calabash Buoys, with remarks by Professor Sule James reception with short artist's talk & refreshments Wed May 22, 2024 at 6pm

image © Maria Ogedengbe

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1976 x 2003, 1976 x 1964, and 1964 x 1939 acrylic and oil on unstretched canvas, 46 x 46," on card table With these works, a comparison is made between painting on unstretched canvas and vinyl tablecloths. I am also thinking about plaid tablecloths in paintings of interiors by Edouard Vuillard. In addition to my interests in creating object-based painting and works that blur lines between painting and textile arts, my work as an artist is concerned with xenophilia with a goal of bridging divides across cultures.

This work explores mathematics and “stick multiplication,” specifically - a method that seems to come from China. Math should bring clarity to daily living to persons of any profession and all walks of life. All around I see people who are getting by with minimal confidence in their ability to use math effectively in life, from high school graduates to university faculty and staff. After exploring a few different ways of working with multiplication, I became engrossed with stick multiplication as a simple, straight-forward method that is highly visual. Stick multiplication is array-like and focuses on place values that are typically color-coded.

In a 2020 journal article Dr. Muhammad Nasiru Hassan, a senior lecturer (1) at Sokoto State University in Nigeria, reported that quasi-experimental (2) research with Primary 5 students (3) shows a significant positive outcome with learning multiplication by the stick method over the traditional method of multiplying place values by each other and adding the answers. This research also revealed that when students are taught multiplication through the stick method girls outperform boys. Footnotes 1) roughly equivalent to "associate professor"in US 2) non-randomized 3) equivalent of US 5th Grade example https://www.youtube.com/embed/gngvWShRgX4

image © Maria Ogedengbe

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2023 Kansas City Flatfile + Digitalfile July 7 - September 23 H&R Block Artspace 12-5 W-Sat, Tues by appt Artists in Dialogue: Saturday, September 16, 3:30-5pm Closing Reception: Friday, September 22, 6-8pm

pictured: Motherlode bedroll sleeve and Lode en Route; the video work, Motherlode by the way is also on exhibit image © Maria Ogedengbe

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Regional Faculty Invitational Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center 125 S Stevens St, Spokane, WA 99201 February 3 - March 3 / hours: Fridays, 4-7pm, Saturdays, 10am-3pm First Friday closing reception March 3, 4:30-7pm ~ all are welcome

above:  Motherlode by Maria Ogedengbe

About half a year ago I encountered this cart in a somewhat broken down state. I repaired it and have been musing about it through drawing it.

In 2018 I became a mother to my husband’s daughter. She arrived on a direct flight from Lagos never having known another mother, she was wearing silver sneakers a couple sizes too small that day. In the time between then and now my days and years have been full of the joys and trials of family life. In our family, shopping for food and bedding usually falls to me and favorite menus involve rice and black-eyed peas which I tote home by the sackful.

I met my husband more than ten years ago on a first trip to Nigeria where I was studying textile arts. There, hand-dyed cloth is produced in outdoor workshops in lengths of 5-6 yards - enough for an outfit. Whether hand-dyed or factory-produced, Nigerians customarily take a length of cloth to a tailor to have it sewn into a made-to-measure ensemble. Occasionally you meet someone wearing an ensemble of tie and dye, perhaps in a “slipper” pattern - such as what you see in this quadruple pillowcase I made for the pillow-bedroll in this load.

In the parts of Nigeria I know you’d find a shekere in most homes. To make this percussion instrument you weave a net of beads, or maybe Job’s Tears, around a dry calabash (gourd) to create a percussion instrument that’s something like a large rattle. My husband has said that a home with a shekere is a happy home, and the shekere is an emblem of home and family - our lives together.

This work suggested its title, but when I looked to dictionary definitions I noticed an alternate spelling with a moving meaning, motherlode: a principal vein of silver or gold, a rich source. A family is toil, a family is a rich source of preciousness running deep.

image © Maria Ogedengbe

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Whitworth University 2022 Faculty Biennial November 8, 2022-January 20, 2023 Bryan Oliver Gallery hours are M-F 10am-4:30pm & Saturdays 10am-2pm (closed Wednesday 12/21/2022 - Monday 1/2/2023) 300 W. Hawthorne Road, Spokane, WA 99251

on right: naranja canela, a photo frieze diptych, 17 x 84″ by Maria Ogedengbe alternate view

image © Maria Ogedengbe

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r-r-ruban vivi installation Cube Gallery winter 2022-2023 Lied Art Center Whitworth University 300 W. Hawthorne Road Spokane, WA 99251

Spokane Public Radio Feb. 2, 2023: r-r-ruban vivi… LINK

Inspiration for this installation comes from holiday decorations I observed when studying textile arts in Nigeria. I earned my MFA in Painting from Yale and had been imagining an artist's residency in Africa. The connection I saw between painting and Africa was dyeing, and large painterly batiks from Nigeria drew me in. In Nigeria I saw how textiles are prized, and how self-presentation, often in elaborate dress, is important. You purchase a few yards of fabric - maybe a hand-printed batik - and bring it to a tailor who sews your outfit to measure. And I noticed, too, that fabric was Nigeria's answer to the strings of lights that outline shop windows in the U.S. during winter holidays. In December in Nigeria solid-color yardage in red, green, and white is twisted, cinched, and stretched to create festive holiday decor on building fronts. In January this is dismantled - the fabric's folded and put away for next year. For my installation, r-r-ruban vivi, I borrowed the idea of yardage from Nigerian holiday decor for my "material" and brought this into a fully 3D format where swathes of fabric swing through space like vibrant paintstrokes. The solid and striped lengths include satins, iridescent organza, and gold tissue lame in a color palette that's energizing and calming, too. Lamps illuminate the installation from about 7am-midnight and give a lantern-like effect when the sun goes down. I like to drive by as it's getting dark to enjoy how the view of r-r-ruban vivi changes as I move around it. image © Maria Ogedengbe

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Veronica veil (V. v.) acrylic on canvas, hardware 2022 Longview Art and Design Faculty exhibit, Spring 2022 currently on view in the gallery at the Cultural Arts Center Longview Community College, 500 SW Longview Rd, Lee's Summit, MO 64081 hours are 10am-1pm M,T, Th, Sat - through April 16

The theme of Veronica's veil is often seen in western art. My work often makes use of crossover between painting and textile arts with relation to my research in West African textiles. So here, in this work, is a very large portrait that is presented unstretched, like a textile. image © Maria Ogedengbe

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LARGE paintings on paper in 2021 Kansas City Flatfile at Artspace  43rd & Walnut Kansas City MO, 7/23-10/14/2021, W-Sat 12-5 • drawer 35 These large paintings on paper in limited palettes are being exhibited for the first time. One has been published as a two-page spread in the Yale Literary Magazine. All were painted from life on prepared paper and depict family members or a friend. Paints & ink on Arches hot press ~ With this exhibit sales are handled through the artist, Artspace is able to contact the artist on behalf of the patron.

image © Maria Ogedengbe

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Copper Daybreak, aviary commission at Virginia Studio House in Kansas City, Missouri

image © Maria Ogedengbe

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Autumn 2020: flowering beans and gourds atop the roof of Missouri GOURDen attract pollinators Support Missouri GOURDen, a community arts & gardening project at 48th & Troost in Kansas City MO. Garden with us or contribute to the virtual tip jar through paypal.me/studiomariaO or via Google Pay to [email protected] ~ thank you !   The “GOURDzebo” is located at 48th & Troost in Kansas City, Missouri. Looking for photos of Missouri GOURDen on social ?  #kcmoGOURDen Missouri GOURDen -  a.k.a. “the GOURDzebo” - is a project of the studio of artist Maria Ogedengbe.

image © Maria Ogedengbe