The chromatic emphasis of Okafor's yellow - a single, almost aggressive hue applied across the entire pictorial field - owes something to the expansive all-over logic of late Monet, yet here the effect is radically compressed into cartoon vitality. A smiling face emerges from the radiating tangle of brushwork, simultaneously dissolving into and generating its own surrounding chaos, interrogating figure-ground relations with gleeful indifference to resolution.
The chromatic emphasis of Okafor's yellow - a single, almost aggressive hue applied across the entire pictorial field - owes something to the expansive all-over logic of late Monet, yet here the effect is radically compressed into cartoon vitality. A smiling face emerges from the radiating tangle of brushwork, simultaneously dissolving into and generating its own surrounding chaos, interrogating figure-ground relations with gleeful indifference to resolution.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery