Once a year, the Fonds Canson pour l’Art et le Papier gives its Prix Canson to one artist in honor of his or her work on paper. This year that artist is the superb Los Angeles–based Njideka…
The Prix Canson has revealed the finalists for its 2016 edition. Given out annually by the Fonds Canson pour l’Art et le Papier, the prize recognizes an artist who makes works on paper and has
Njideka Akunyili Crosby uses paint, pencil, collage and Xerox transfer techniques to render interior spaces where swaths of solid color meet contrastingly grainy cutouts. Her large-scale mixed-medium…
One morning in mid-August, during a break from work in her Los Angeles studio, the artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby got to talking about Nigeria, where she grew up and lived until college…