Introduction
This paper will discuss three artists: Chris Ofili, Barbara Kruger and Chaz Mavyane-Davies. Christopher "Chris" Ofili was born October 10 1968. He is an English Turner Prize-winning painter who is best known for his paintings incorporating elephant dung. American conceptual/pop artist Barbara Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1945 and left there in 1964 to attend Syracuse University. Early on in her career she developed an interest in graphic design, poetry, and writing and attended poetry readings. Born 1952 in Harare, Zimbabwe, graphic designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies currently lives in Cambridge Massachusetts. He is a tenured professor at Massachusetts College of Art & Design. He completed his studies in the UK receiving …show more content…
He was one of the Young British Artists. Since 2005, Ofili has been living and working in Trinidad, where he currently resides in Port of Spain. He also lives and works in London and Brooklyn. Ofili was born in Manchester to May and Michael Ofili. When he was eleven, his father left the family and moved back to Nigeria. Ofili was for some years educated at St. Pius X High School for Boys, and then at Xaverian College in Victoria Park, Manchester. Ofili completed a foundation course in art at Tameside College in Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchesterand then studied in London, at the Chelsea School of Art from 1988 to 1991 and at the Royal College of Art from 1991 to 1993. During that time, he was in a relationship with fellow artist Tomma Abts. In the fall of 1992, he got a one-year exchange scholarship to Universität der Künste Berlin. Ofili visited Trinidad for the first time in 2000, when he was invited by an international art trust to attend a painting workshop in Port of Spain. He permanently moved to Trinidad in 2005. He lives with his wife Roba, former singer with trip-hop band Attica Blues, whom he married in 2002. He maintains a studio on Lady Chancellor Road, about ten minutes from downtown Port of Spain, in
This paper will discuss three artists: Chris Ofili, Barbara Kruger and Chaz Mavyane-Davies. Christopher "Chris" Ofili was born October 10 1968. He is an English Turner Prize-winning painter who is best known for his paintings incorporating elephant dung. American conceptual/pop artist Barbara Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1945 and left there in 1964 to attend Syracuse University. Early on in her career she developed an interest in graphic design, poetry, and writing and attended poetry readings. Born 1952 in Harare, Zimbabwe, graphic designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies currently lives in Cambridge Massachusetts. He is a tenured professor at Massachusetts College of Art & Design. He completed his studies in the UK receiving …show more content…
He was one of the Young British Artists. Since 2005, Ofili has been living and working in Trinidad, where he currently resides in Port of Spain. He also lives and works in London and Brooklyn. Ofili was born in Manchester to May and Michael Ofili. When he was eleven, his father left the family and moved back to Nigeria. Ofili was for some years educated at St. Pius X High School for Boys, and then at Xaverian College in Victoria Park, Manchester. Ofili completed a foundation course in art at Tameside College in Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchesterand then studied in London, at the Chelsea School of Art from 1988 to 1991 and at the Royal College of Art from 1991 to 1993. During that time, he was in a relationship with fellow artist Tomma Abts. In the fall of 1992, he got a one-year exchange scholarship to Universität der Künste Berlin. Ofili visited Trinidad for the first time in 2000, when he was invited by an international art trust to attend a painting workshop in Port of Spain. He permanently moved to Trinidad in 2005. He lives with his wife Roba, former singer with trip-hop band Attica Blues, whom he married in 2002. He maintains a studio on Lady Chancellor Road, about ten minutes from downtown Port of Spain, in