Mr. James OlaDapo Makinde (A.K.A Adubi Mydaz), was born in Oyo state, and is a self-thought professional artist. He graduated in 2007 from Olabisi Onabanjo University with a Bachelor’s in History and Diplomatic Studies. Adubi consistently exhibits artworks of a broad representational style; an expressive abstract composition that are inspired by contemporary life. As one examines the semi- abstract pictures closely, these images which symbolize faces and forms of age long afro- centric sculptures reregister the uniqueness embedded in African originality. Adubi lives in Nigeria where he explores his artistic passion in a private studio as a full-time painter.
Adubi’s states “My body of work is currently entrenched in identifying African customs’ subtle yet effective resistance against the tension and complexities of contemporaneous global cultural diffusion. This project therefore employ African contemporary art framework to propose an ongoing secret history of modernity, and in the process, point to stereotypes of difference, which are hidden in plain sight.” This is being achieved by materializing figurative paintings with notational methods, sight of post modern African sensibilities and, choreography presentation together in one work, “Dance in Paintings series” casts the discipline of dance as the work’s medium, as an art installation and a chronicle of dance in a broader spectrum. His recent solo exhibition was true colours I and II.Adubi has participated in various group exhibitions and in famous art fairs such as Art Vancouver.
