aka Ogechi began hand-painting abstract designs on fabric in
her childhood with her grandmother, Geraldyne Hill using
craft fabric paint squeeze bottles. During her freshman
in high school she was introduced to a xerox/acrylic
image transfer method by the painter Lynn Marshall
Linnemeyer. From this initiation she moved through the
paint media over the years from stencil, spray paint,
silk-screen finally to directly painting designs and
text on-to the fabric with acrylic paint. Ogechi's has
experimented with surfaces ranging from cardboard and
wood, to Mylar and photographs for her paintings and
drawings. As a graduate student, her work drew the
attention from Marlboro Gallery in NYC. Returning to the
early playfulness of with the usage of craft paint
squeeze bottles was a liberating process for Ogechi. It
was here that she fused all of the sophisticated
techniques in acrylic and she acquired through years of
practice.
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