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June 01 2016 Auto-Graphics: Works by Victor Ekpuk; Ukara: Ritual Cloth of the Ekpe Secret Society Auto-Graphics: Works by Victor EkpukUkara: Ritual Cloth of the Ekpe Secret SocietyHood Museum of Art Dartmouth College April 28–August 2, 2015 Author and Article Information Online Issn: 1937-2108 Print Issn: 0001-9933 © 2016 by the Regents of the University of California.2016 African Arts (2016) 49 (2): 84–86. https://doi.org/10.1162/AFAR_r_00289 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Auto-Graphics: Works by Victor Ekpuk; Ukara: Ritual Cloth of the Ekpe Secret Society. African Arts 2016; 49 (2): 84–86. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/AFAR_r_00289 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsAfrican Arts Search Advanced Search In the Lathrop Gallery of Dartmouth's Hood Museum two concurrent exhibitions, “Auto-Graphics: Works by Victor Ekpuk” and “Ukara: Ritual Cloth of the Ekpe Secret Society,” provoked interesting counterpoints, reflecting the vitality of ancient artistic traditions in rural and urban Nigerian settings as well as in global contexts. Both exhibitions provided their own idiosyncratic usage of linguistic signs and ideographic lines but in very different artistic media. “Auto-Graphics,” which was initially curated by Allyson Purpura at the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was overseen by Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi at the Hood Museum of Art venue. The exhibition at the Hood, which encompassed twenty works from several different series by Victor Ekpuk, was highlighted by a “drawing performance” in which the artist painted a tripartite mural in the gallery. Production of this work took several days and was augmented by talks and workshops with Ekpuk. For those visiting... You do not currently have access to this content.
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