Spotlight: Into the Fifth
Artist Statement
Into The Fifth speaks to the force of a paradigm shift, as I experience the world transitioning from one dimension to the next. During the creative process, I experimented with sculpture, photography, homemade activated charcoal paint, ceramics, 24k gold, and collage, allowing my creative process to flow through me, without or without thought. In each painting, I leave the background victim to individual interpretation, as a means to give the subject the power to create, build, tear down, and manipulate the world behind them, surpassing an idea of royalty, conveying a sense of godliness from each being. The choice to paint these subjects as melanated men and women is, was, and will always be a deliberate one. It reflects the desires I have for myself as a spiritual being living a natural experience, striving to stay in constant contact and communication with who I was before I was Nneka Osueke.
A true visionary of her time, multidisciplinary artist Nneka Osueke splashes her imagination on across the canvas, creating themes of Black empowerment, spirituality, and the exploration of the unconscious mind. A first-generation Nigerian, born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she illustrated her own handmade books at the age of five, picked up the paintbrush at age nine, and sketched her first fashion designs at age eleven.
