Thursday, May 29, 2025

Artist of the Day, May 30, 2025: Deborah Segun, a Nigerian emerging artist, painter (#2292)

Deborah Segun (1994), born in Nigeria, is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Lagos, Nigeria.. She obtained a degree in Fashion Design at the Polimoda Institute of Fashion Design and Marketing in Florence, Italy in 2017. During her studies in fashion, she translated her own art production into clothing, creating conceptual and sculptural wearable pieces. Deborah’s works can be described as a mix between cubism and abstraction; she takes a playful, purist approach to her work by focusing on form rather than detail, through the use of different artistic mediums. Her works are mainly figurative with a focus on portraiture. The inspiration behind her works stem from her personal and shared experiences as a woman, as well as observations of any given space she occupies at a time. She tries to capture these experiences through her unique and experimental use of colours and shapes, which she believes creates a sense of simplicity and calmness out of a rather complex scenario. She exaggerates the figures or displaces them, as she believes it is her own way of confronting how she sees things. She also likes to isolate shapes from the subjects/ objects and put them together to create a new composition.

Celebrating the diverse bodies of women through shape and colour, Segun’s voluptuous figures dominate the canvas and are rendered with striking palettes. The Artist frames each swath of pigment with sharp lines that provide context, depth, and emphasis to guide her viewers through each piece.

The fractured forms often overlap with one another, seemingly displaying the subjects from multiple perspectives at once. Segun chooses a warm and soft composition and plays on tonal differences to portray the tenderness that comes with loving and allowing yourself to be loved by others.

Segun’s paintings, showcase her resolve in strengthening relationships and connections, storing profound details of friendships through mundane events, acknowledging differences and promoting harmonious balance. She tries to capture these experiences through her unique and experimental use of colours and shapes, which she believes creates a sense of simplicity and calmness out of a rather complex scenario.
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Ms. Deborah Segun
There Is No Smoke Without Fire, 2024
The Sweetness Of Doing Nothing, 2024
 The Cycle Repeats Itself, 2024
 Thanks for letting us in, 2024
Spring, 2024
Sometimes It Feels Like A Puff Of Smoke In A Windstorm, 2024
Safe Haven, 2024
Reassurance, 2024
Pouring Into Me, 2024
Post Work Clarity, 2024
It's a process, 2024
Is it too much, 2024
I can’t always be strong, 2024
Human Nature, 2024
Group Therapy, 2024
Facing My Fears, 2024
Coyness, 2024
A Space To Flourish, 2024
Enjoying The Moment, 2024
Sweet Bloom (Blue), 2023
Summertime Joy, 2023
Sitting Still, 2023
Positivity will get you there, 2023
Dust your shoulders off, 2023
A friend in deed, 2023
A Different Past, 2023
Empath, 2022
Regaining My Balance, 2021

Artist of the Day, May 29, 2025 : Natee Utarit, a Thai contemporary artist, painter (#2291)

Natee Utarit (1970) is a contemporary artist from Bangkok, Thailand. He has participated in group and several solo exhibitions in East Asia and Europe.

Utarit's artworks have been described as involving the relationships between historical arts such as Renaissance art from the Western world and postcolonialism.

Natee Utarit was born in Bangkok. He graduated from Silpakorn University majoring in Graphic Arts (Fine Arts) at the Painting and Sculpture Faculty. He has received the Art Game Changer Award from Asia Society.

Natee's works have been described as a combination of philosophy, beliefs, religious views, history, knowledge of various elements from various centuries, and experimentation (on connecting between his artworks and historical cultures from the Western world). The artist also uses photographs as a communication tool, creating a visionary view presenting cultures and an informative background on the relationships between Western and Eastern cultures, respectively.

According to one analysis, Natee's works can be regarded as finding newer perspective by creating a figurative which differs from the original / tradition views. With that, the artist's use of sociopolitical and religious points of view to craft up his works of art, reflecting both contemporary points of view and hidden messages for the audience to comprehends through various visuals and forms.

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Natee Utarit
Viva Colonialism
The Dream of Melancholy Soul and the Darkest Side of Hope
The Price of Innocence, 2016
he Private Expectation of God and the Common Reason of Investment, 2014
The Dream of Melancholy Soul and the Darkest Side of Hope, 2014
The Ambassador, 2014
Luxury Purity, 2013
The Bridge, 2012
Reconciliation, 2012
Innocence is Overrated, 2012
Are You in the Game, 2012
Aesthetic of Condemnation No.1, 2012
Optimism is Ridiculous, 2012
In Wine Truth, 2012
Candle ligh, 2012
The Absence, 2011
God, 2011
The Dawn of Day (Illustration of the Crisis Series), 2010
Princess with umbrella, 2010, (Illustration of the crisis series
Venus of the crisis, 2010
Propaganda Parakeet, 2010
100 Years of Faith and Crisis, 2010
White Horse, 2009
The Dusk of History, 2009
Blue King, 2009
Alice in Ordinary Land, 2008
The Amusement of Dreams, 2007
Comedy, 2007
 Micro history of politic Nº. 2 (The  amusement of dream, hope and perfection), 2007
Remember Me, 2004