Wingate Studio is pleased to announce a portfolio of unique monoprints and three new editions by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones. The artist created the prints with Wingate Studio master printers during the Catalyst Residency at Yale University, and Wingate Studio published the project.

The portfolio and three editions embody and render Adeniyi-Jones’ exploration of subverted narratives and histories, specifically those of Nigeria. The artist’s iconic language of figuration explores West African mythology, ceremony, and ritual. In his new portfolio of monoprints and three editions, the artist plays with simplifying and augmenting the figures as they expressively move through shifting fields of color. Adeniyi-Jones’s masterful use of color relationships, form, and pattern give rise to vibrant and physical compositions in these new etchings.

Wingate Studio is pleased to announce Astral Reflections, a new aquatint edition by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones produced in collaboration with Nicelle Beauchene and Morán Morán. Published in an edition of 30, Astral Reflections is a six plate aquatint etching with soft ground and spit bite on white Somerset Satin paper, and is the artist’s first ever print edition.

Astral Reflections synthesizes Tunji Adeniyi-Jones’ exploration of the deified body: elongated, elegant figures that twist and dance in voluptuous contortions. Over the past several years, the artist has developed this iconic language of figuration to think through West African mythology, ceremony, and ritual. In Astral Reflections, nine of these figures expressively move through a fiery field of oranges and reds. Adeniyi-Jones’ keen interest in the relationship of color, form, and pattern renders itself evident in this dynamic composition.

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones (b. 1992, London, England) lives and works in New York, NY. The artist’s paintings emerge from what he describes as “cultural addition, combination, and collaboration.” His practice is inspired by the ancient history of West Africa and its attendant mythology, and by his Yoruba heritage. Recent solo exhibitions include White Cube (Hong Kong), Morán Morán (Los Angeles, CA), Flag Art Foundation (New York City, NY), Nicelle Beauchene Gallery (New York City, NY), White Cube (Paris, FR), and Charleston (Lewes, UK). He will be featured in the 60th Venice Biennale at the Nigerian Pavilion. Adeniyi-Jones’s work can be found in the public collections of the Aishti Foundation (Lebanon), Birmingham Museum of Art (AL), Dallas Museum of Art (TX), Institute of Contemporary Art (Miami, FL), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, NY), Museum Azman (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), National Museum of Norway (Oslo), Norval Foundation (Cape Town, South African), Perez Art Museum (Miami, FL), Ståhl Collection (Norrkoping, Sweden), The Studio Museum (Harlem, NY), and many other public and private collections.