Sartorial Anarchy #5, 2013
Pigment On Satin Paper
54h x 36.10w in
137.16h x 91.69w cm
Leila Heller is pleased to announce Style and Sympathies, an exhibition of photographs by Nigerian born New Yorker Iké Udé.
Style and Sympathies includes a selection of self-portraits from Udé’s critically acclaimed Sartorial Anarchy series and, for the first time, the series will be broadly continued and presented. Udé’s distinctive portraits, which poeticize colors, sumptuous fabrics, and composition, transcend the traditional aesthetic of portraiture by adopting a post-modern twist. The portraits show a highly stylized world of color and improvisational virtuosity, in which the artist employs men’s fashion ensembles that have been culled from various historical times and geographies.
