ruby onyinyechi amanze is a visual artist whose practice is primarily centered around drawing and works on paper. In a non-linear and open narrative, her drawings explore space as a malleable construct, the freedom to play as revolutionary and cultural hybridity as a mundane norm. In 2004, amanze earned her B.F.A., Summa Cum Laude, from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and her M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 2006. In 2012-2013, amanze was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholars Award in Drawing to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. amanze has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including, New York, Johannesburg, Miami, London and Lagos. Although she currently lives and works in New York, she enjoys being a 'local' of many places.

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Paper As Body

By RUBY ONYINYECHI AMANZE

A Conversation Between Two Artists