#kambuiolujimi

[mtaartsdesign]

Kambui Olujimi’s laminated glass artwork “Where the Sky Begins” (2018) at Avenue I (F) station, features photographs of the sky taken by @kambuiolujimi at various locations around the world, under a variety of weather conditions. The Brooklyn-born artist reassembles the images in kaleidoscopic views, making awe-inspiring sky-scapes a regular part of the daily commute.

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Something Like a Phenomenon, Kambui Olujimi, 2002, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

© Kambui Olujimi Size: 53 1/2 x 42 in. (135.9 x 106.7 cm) Medium: Digital photo collage

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2714

[supportblackart]

@kambuiolujimi 🔥 Tonight’s ink painting of the 3rd Precinct and a rough draft of some writing from two nights ago. Being a big kid I was told incessantly, as if I didn’t hear the first forty times, how to move in the presence of police. Another game like Skully, or Team Tag, While trying to outlast another day. We was built for this?! How could words carry the scent and air starched hard enough to cut? How could my father fix his face to say to me–11–all legs, knees and elbows, dots and dashes, a knock-knock joke in Morse code: “You’re a child of God but there are men who would end your life because of a story they tell themselves.” Did he practice in a mirror, the whole time looking away? All the black boys I knew got the speech. How to move slower than a bag of sand. How not to be confused for a lethal pre-teen. There’s no amount of fire Can clean this place to the bone. Even the dirt would need to be turned to ash. #supportblackart #kambuiolujimi #georgefloyd #minneapolis #blm #enough #skully #inmylifetime https://www.instagram.com/p/CA5NCSRBrOM/?igshid=6ykprj6mmrjk

[mtaartsdesign]

Even as the winter clouds loom over Brooklyn, there’s always a fiery sunset to be found at the Avenue I (F) station in Kambui Olujimi’s “Where the Sky Begins” (2018). His laminated glass panels were created from a series of photographs of the sky taken around the world. To experience more of Olujimi’s celestial views, his long term installation “Skywriters & Constellations” can be seen every Wed-Sunday at 4pm at the Newark Museum, where his collaged animations are projected onto the night sky of the Planetarium’s dome. 

[mtaartsdesign]

Show and Tell: At one of last weekend’s Open House New York tours of new art in subway stations on the F line in Brooklyn, artists Jackie Battenfield (Avenue P) and Lisa Sigal (Avenue N) discussed their work with an enthusiastic OHNY group. Also seen on the tour were Kambui Olujimi (Avenue I) and Leslie Wayne’s (Bay Pkwy) beautiful laminated glass installations.

[mtaartsdesign]

“Where the Sky Begins” (2018), Kambui Olujimi’s newly installed laminated glass panels at the Avenue I station (F), is a series of lyrical compositions created from views of the sky from around the world - from Beijing to Brooklyn, Johannesburg to Jerusalem, or Rio to Rome. The universal imagery provides a vast space for reflection and connection on the train platform. 

Fabricated by Depp Glass. 

[maleneart]

Kambui Olujimi 1976 NYC USA

All I Got to Give 2019

Watercolour, ink & graphite on paper

Bozar Brussels - When we see us

[crashing-through-the-clouds]

Projections refracted through crystals, that’s a new one for me. Very glad I stopped into the @ubartgalleries this past weekend and saw Kambui Olujimi’s excellent show “Zulu Time”! #kambuiolujimi #contemporaryart #projectedimageart #newmediaart #ubartgalleries https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo1iQaRlSK4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=x2yhdah37n4e