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Ludovic Nkoth Don’t Take This Too @ François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
François Ghebaly Gallery // January 26, 2021 - February 27, 2021
February 10, 2021 | in Painting
Don’t Take This Too, the Cameroonian-born, New York-based painter’s first major solo exhibition.
Don’t Take This Too introduces viewers to Nkoth’s distinctively swirling brush, his layered, vivid palette, and his iconography of figures drawn from both fantasy and memory. Each canvas starts with a wash of pigment that flows in swaths of vivid color, over which Nkoth defines the subject’s posture and features, allowing the initial sprawl to shine through as an inner iridescence. Constructed of fluid, twisting contours, Nkoth’s figures often look captured in the process of formation, reached for as one reaches for a half-collapsed memory or a dream upon waking.