Staff Picks: Wangechi Mutu, Chocolate Nguva, 2015
Wangechi Mutu, Chocolate Nguva, 2015. Patinated bronze with marble base, 10 × 16 × 14 in. Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by Holly Peterson 2017.23a-b. Photo: John Berens
Wangechi Mutu, Chocolate Nguva, 2015. Patinated bronze with marble base, 10 × 16 × 14 in. Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by Holly Peterson 2017.23a-b. Photo: John Berens
Wangechi Mutu is one from a group I call my “Art Heroines.” I call her “heroic” because she demonstrates the perspective-bending courage one needs to step fully into a creative process and forthright telling.
Chocolate Nguva is a wonderful example of this: the simultaneously whimsical and yet not, the slightly alien and yet not, and, ultimately, the strangeness of our interior worlds.