The artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby in her East Los Angeles studio, where she prepared to open a major show at Zwirner gallery.Erik Carter for The New York Times
The artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby in her East Los Angeles studio, where she prepared to open a major show at Zwirner gallery.Erik Carter for The New York Times
LOS ANGELES — To listen to Njideka Akunyili Crosby talk about the lengths to which she’ll go in researching the scientific classification of plants to depict in one of her paintings — Madagascar Jasmine? Safari Sunset? — is to begin to understand this Nigerian artist’s slow and exacting approach, as well as why her new exhibition, inaugurating David Zwirner’s first Los Angeles gallery on May 23, feels like a significant art world event.
“I had a clear idea of what I wanted the plant to do,” said Akunyili Crosby, 40, in a recent conversation at her East Los Angeles studio, discussing the process behind the self-portrait, “Still You Bloom in This Land of No Gardens,” which features her in patterned pants, holding her youngest child on the porch surrounded by lush greenery.
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