One Saturday June 27th NkemLife will be celebrating our one year anniversary in D.C . In honor of our one year anniversary NkemLife is launching our very own photography series called The Journey For Regina .
The Journey for Regina will also feature the art work of one half of NkemLife ( Chidinma Dureke)
Please come join and celebrate our one year anniversary with us with a night of ….
Visual Conversations About Blackness; Culture, Africa & Natural Hair.
The event will be held on Saturday June 27th, 2015 from 2pm to 6pm at Nubian Hueman Boutique located inside the Anacostia Arts Center. The Journey for Regina is a visual storyboard of life in Nigeria from our perspectives after viewing it first hand from our travels.The show will feature the artwork of visual artist Chidinma Dureke, and recent photography works from our blog. We will also have an Q & A along with discussion and conversation about their our blog .
The Regina Photography Series is a visual photographic homage to our late grandmother Mama Regina. We are using our journey back home to Nigeria as a platform to start the conversation about the importance o of making the journey back “home”. Our photography highlights the beauty of everyday of life in Africa, based on our Nigerian- American lenses . .
The show will feature the highly creative differential works of Chidinma which has been compared to that of Picasso and Gauguin by a university professor will be on display and available for purchase for the general public. Her works includes a textural mixture of oil paints, fabric, paper, ink, and gouache on different surfaces. Chidinma’s style is a fusion of Contemporary black art, illustration and portraiture with a range of subject matters based on the Black experience. Her biggest social experiment entitled “One Drop” focuses on feminine beauty and what constitutes blackness. Counting as number one of eight, “One Drop” is a passionate exploration of culture, the definition of beauty, as well as forced perspective. “My ultimate goal is to shift our focus on whom the woman is rather than what her hair looks like, facial structure and complexion. My work focuses on what my century brings to the ideas of race, femininity, and sexual allure. I want my work to change the cliché narratives in the portraits of black women in the arts.”
Saturday, June 24, 2015
2:00pm to 6:00pm
Nubian Hueman Boutique Lounge
1231 Good Hope Road SE, Washington, DC 20020
About Nubian Hueman
Nubian Hueman features ethnic fashion apparel, accessories, and beauty brands, along with art of all mediums from around the globe. Their myriad of talented designers bring ethnic influences to modern silhouettes and product lines by using traditional patterns or ingredients. Nubian Hueman concentrates on (but is not exclusive to) brands and artists that provide growth opportunities and/or a portion of its proceeds to not-for-profit organizations, fair-trade, or socio-developmental causes. The Nubian Hueman Boutique Lounge serves as a means to promote collective interaction, community development, and global responsibility through a fresh and artistic platform. www.nubianhueman.com
