Afromatrix

        Child-like and humor are worrds that I would use to describe Chris Ofili's work I saw in the Art Club last Friday. I was more attracted to mostly the big drawing papers with little skinny lines and a lot of white space. What special about them is the little drawing details or you may call the composing element of the drawings that looks like many heads with afro.

        My favorite piece out of all in the show is the No. 20 Afromatrix. It is basically 112 drawings framed in one big mat board and frame that is 41.5 in. x 61.5 in. It is done by Chris Ofili around 2000 to 2007. Again it is composed with many little afro heads. There are many variations in the piece. The afroes appear in different shapes. Some look like animal shapes, and some look just like crazy hair. Though enerally the piece lookd very geomecial. However, every individual little piece of paper inside of each mat frame has tiered up. I really enjoyed how detail the work is and the variations in the whole unity.

        The idea of haing little afro heards is very clever, however, I think on the level of the entire show, it is a little bit over used. It is a probelm I think many artists face when dealing with a whole body of art. You want them to be unified but you do not what people to be bored with it. I found it not easy to decide especially when dealing with my own work. There are many requirements go into a good body of work show. First it needs to be originally. They it needs to hold down to the direction but willing to explore the suprise of it. Then everything needs to be pulled together so it looks like from the same body. I say that Chris Ofili's show definitly fulfilled most of the requirements, but I just hope there is a little bit more suprise.