Woman of Substance
2023
Oil on canvas, 137 × 102 cm.
USD 19,000
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Chike Onuorah
University of Life — 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 152 × 122 cm. USD 24,000.
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COLL-AW African Woman
16 worksStudies of presence: the strength, grace, and quiet authority of the African woman.
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COLL-FC Faces
06 worksPortraiture as lived testimony. The gaze held, the character kept.
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21 worksExpansive compositions that reward a longer look, narrative and abstract at once.
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07 worksArchitectural and assured, works that stand with the presence of a landmark.
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Chike Onuorah
Ovico is a gallery of one. Where most contemporary African galleries hold a roster of twenty or more, Ovico concentrates its attention on a single evolving practice, treating one painter's body of work with the depth and rigor it asks for.
Onuorah works in oil and acrylic at architectural scale, building portraits that hold their subjects in stillness. The collection here is the current viewing room. Each work is available privately, by appointment.
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One artist, treated with archival seriousness. We follow a single practice as it evolves rather than spreading attention thin across a roster.
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No intermediaries, no marketplace noise. Works are presented and acquired privately, the way serious collections are built.
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Every work carries its provenance, medium, and date. The record is kept the way a museum keeps it, available to those who acquire.
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