A prolific artist and the face of Nigerian modernism, Bruce Okobrakpeya, at 91, is finally getting his first solo show in the US at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. With a 70-year career in painting, sculpture and printmaking, the artist initially emerged in the 1950s as a member of the Zaria Radicals, whose mission was to decolonize art and revive Nigerian artistic traditions in tandem with Western ones. As his reputation grew, he was asked to reinterpret the stations of the cross from a Nigerian perspective, and these paintings form the core of the Smithsonian’s current exhibit.
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