Marcia Kure
Nigerian artist
Marcia Kure (born 1970) is a Nigerian visual artist known primarily for her mixed media paintings and drawings that engage with postcolonial existentialist conditions and identities. Kure was born in Kano State, Nigeria. She trained at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka under painter Obiora Udechukwu and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in painting in 1994. Kure's early work focused on political violence and the agency of women in patriarchal society. Her later work has been concerned with themes related to motherhood, haute couture fashion, and hip-hop aesthetics. Kure had her New York debut at the Skoto Gallery in 1995.
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- "I am not interested in either or, in what something is or what it is not; rather, I prefer the gray area that deals directly with oppositions and juxtapositions. I find the ability to inhabit different views very inspiring. I think the assimilation of western forms and techniques in my work allows me to integrate and interpret the world through a prismatic lens much better than one who has a singular view."
- Marcia Kure's quotes
- In a world where we are asked to constantly perform identity, I am trying to create a liminal space, somewhere between boundaries through my work.
