MIAMI, FLORIDA.-Miami Art Museum presents the first solo museum exhibition by Wangechi Mutu, a Kenyan-born artist currently living in New York. Mutu’s growing, widespread acclaim includes being named as one of this season’s “Top 25 Movers, Shakers, and Makers” by ARTnews magazine. The exhibition is curated by MAM Assistant Director for Programs/Senior Curator Peter Boswell and will be on view from July 22 to October 9. Mutu is known for hallucinatory drawings in which she combines collage and ink drawing to create flamboyantly distorted figures that reflect contemporary society’s obsession with physical appearance. Her elegantly grotesque figures are assembled with surgical precision from images clipped from sources as diverse as glamour magazines, National Geographic publications, coffee table books on “classical” African art, wildlife journals, and motorcycle magazines. Mutu mixes these fragments with hand-rendered ink, acrylic and watercolor passages that recall everything from body wounds to elaborately patterned fabrics.
