Toyin Odutola
Toyin Odutola
Toyin Ojih Odutolais an artist who was born in Ife, Nigeria. She received a BA in Studio Art and Communications from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2008. She also received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2012...
NationalityNigerian
ProfessionArtist
CountryNigeria
history indicate people time
When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.
fit mark race whatever
I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.
basically breaking components developed draw face form inside landscape planes time weave
It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.
bit commenting dialogue feeling great people point social themselves
The social media bit is really about documenting process. I like the dialogue if it's constructive, but I'm now at a crossroads. I've accumulated a lot of followers, and it's great, but I'm also at that teetering point where people are feeling themselves a little too much, commenting a little too much.
memes publishers
I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.
african based
My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.