Oluseyi Soyege, the Nigerian artist, has won a laurel at the San Antonio Art League & Museum in Texas.
The museum, whose works are acclaimed to span 5,000 years of global culture, held its 93rd juried art exhibition.
Soyege’s fabric collage artwork titled “A Peek Into the Future” won one of the six awards given to artist entries.
“A Peek Into the Future” is a fabric collage with newspapers depicting a child imagining his rich future self.
It was selected out of the 552 entries submitted by over 200 competing artists.
Soyege’s works adorn hotels, schools, cinemas, and individual homes across Nigeria, Africa, the UK, and the US.
The artist is a graduate of Yaba College of Technology in Lagos where he started making sculptures and paintings.
Commenting on the award given to him, Soyege, who founded the Ongrounds Art Gallery in Houston, said he is proud to bring recognition to his Nigerian artistic roots which continue to receive validation in the US.
“My foray into fabric collage came in answer to the universal question of urban consumerism and its concomitant pollution problems. Recycling of waste has been a front burner in this century,” the artist added.
“My response to cultivating a clean environment in our cities is to find artistic use for waste from everyday pollutants like scrap metals and fabrics offcuts. Hence the peregrination into the nascent world of fabric collage.”
The 552 works vetted at San Antonio Art League & Museum’s juried art exhibition came from San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, and San Marcos, among other cities.
The exhibition is open from April 2 to June 3 to showcase 64 artists designated by Catherine Walworth, the juror.
“Judging these works was like sitting on a train and watching the Texas landscape roll past,” Walworth said.
“It was a wide swathe of artists and perspectives, a window onto a certain time and place, and a lovely, broad field of human conditions. I applaud everyone who entered for putting something new into the world.”
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