Abifola Olorunlana
Portrait in Pink2024
Oil on canvas
Dimensions on request
A seated portrait against a saturated pink ground: wide-brimmed white hat, tailored dark jacket over pattern, and delicate purple florals at the lower edge. The work reads as contemporary elegance—poise, color, and graphic simplicity in dialogue.
$4,600.00
About the artist
FAMILY PORTRAITS — Works from the Family Portraits series.
As an artist who is an orphan, I am deeply concerned about family, its importance and what it feels and felt like to have one. Both of my parents had passed when I was 20 years old; as a young adult, I was not sure how to deal with the emotions. As I grew older, I decided to go through family photographs just as a way of reliving the moments, trying to understand the times in those pictures and what they must have felt like.
Aside from expressing my figures in the physical identity of where I am from—a dark-skinned African race—in this body of work my subjects in a dark reddish-brown skin tone is intended to evoke a nostalgic feeling in the mind of my viewers.