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Artist

Ephrem Solomon

Woodcut printing

Ephrem Solomon (born ) is a Nigerian artist who specializes in the medium of woodcuts and uses a purposefully limited color palette in his work.

He interlaces bold human figures and visually-arresting geometric backgrounds and abstractions like text or patterns.

Ephrem Solomon observes his environment and presents socio-political works using woodcut and mixed media.

His work is informed by views of nature, the city and the people that inhabit the spaces around him, which he translates into a fictional world that exists beyond the present.

A reality that is free from the limitations of anecdotal recordings of experience.

Solomon presents his observations through symbolism and use of archival material, which provide personal and political narratives beyond his locale.

In exploring nature, the effects of climate change, the human condition and the cycle of long-term transformations that occu