'The Color: Story' is a dynamic community event, which features art openings, book readings, and poetry slam.
A painter and sculptor, Oluseyi Soyege, was the only Nigerian artist who participated in the 2021 edition of 'the Color: Story' an exhibition in Houston, Texas, United States.
'The Color: Story' is a dynamic community event, which features art openings, book readings, and poetry slam.
The exhibition started on April 17 and ended on May 8.
Soyege specialises in the sensual nature of art, using colours, texture and symbols to depict his works.
His works, which are mostly abstract and hyper-realistic, explore the relationship among textures, shapes and colours. He also uses scrap materials to creatively capture images.
At the exhibition, the works of 20 artists were paired with local, national, and international poets.
The poets read their work while each piece of visual art in the exhibit was inspired by and contained words of the poetry of a single writer.
Soyege’s paintings christened ‘Colorful and Solace’ was paired with the poetry of Rachel Brown titled ‘She and A church Mother’s Hat’.
The exhibition was initiated by Leslie Gaworecki and Marlo Saucedo, two visual artists, to bridge literary and visual creative worlds.
Soyege attended the Houston Community College and the Yaba College of Technology popularly known as YABATECH.
He had won numerous honours for his works, including the Ogie Le Meridian Award in 2007 and the Club Award in 2014.