Grove City College’s Pew Fine Arts Center Gallery will feature the work of an internationally acclaimed Nigerian artist.
Art by Bruce Onobrakpeya, as well as folk art from East and West Africa, will be featured in the gallery, 10 Hicks Drive, Grove City, through Oct. 14.
Onobrakpeya, a printmaker, painter and sculptor, is one of the most successful artists to emerge from West Africa in the 20th Century and a commanding influence on artists in Africa and around the world in the post-colonial period.
His works have exhibited at the Tate Modern Museum in London, National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., Malmo Konsthall in Sweden, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Lagos, and many other international venues.
Onobrakpeya’s work is complemented in the gallery with pieces of folk