#RecentAcquisition ✨ @Cinga_Samson’s “Okwe Nkunzana 7” (2021) is an important example of the artist's work with the figure. In these sublimely muted paintings, protagonists based on the artist, friends or acquaintances, are rendered with everyday clothes in matter of fact frontal poses. Yet they sometimes making offerings, and all feature eyes without pupils that reference a dreamlike spirituality. Samson (b.1986, Cape Town) is a self-taught artist who samples painterly techniques and treatments within a single painting, including glazing, wiping, or underpainting certain sections. By incorporating elements of everyday life, the paintings build a visual language that reflects the complexity of the artist’s South African identity. "There seems to be some energy about the figures and about the paintings. It’s just in the presence. It is there. You know, it’s around the whole painting. Maybe it’s the dark, maybe it’s the quietness, maybe the silence. Maybe it’s just a strange mood that the works convey, but it’s hard for me to say.” – #CingaSamson Visit “Okwe Nkunzana 7,” previously on view at @FlagArtFoundation, is included in #FireFigureFantasy at #ICAMiami through October 30. Learn more at the link in bio 🔗 ___________⁣ Cinga Samson, “Okwe Nkunzana 7,” 2021. Oil on canvas. Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Promised gift of Marquez Family Collection, Miami. Image © the artist. Photo © White Cube (Nina Lieska). Cinga Samson in his studio in Cape Town. Photo: Stephanie Veldman via @NYTimes. #painting #figurativeart #capetown #capetownartist #portrait #miamiart #museum #artmuseum #miami #contemporaryart