Onyedika Chuke

Winter Workspace 2013
Glyndor Gallery | January 2 – March 24, 2013  

Bronx-based artist Onyedika Chuke is one of two recipients of Wave Hill’s 2013 Van Lier Visual Artist Fellows. The artist was born in Nigeria and immigrated to New York City as a child. As a student at Cooper Union he began making artwork using a research-based approach. In recent work, Chuke has created site-specific interventions that address the universal human condition. The Verbier 3D Art Residency in the Swiss Alps, in 2012 gave him the opportunity to create an installation inside an abandoned concrete structure at the top of a mountain. Chuke altered the space by adding a dome with glass tiles and resting a hand-carved tree trunk on a wall inside the structure. He will create another site-specific installation in the Sunroom Project Space at Wave Hill. Participating in the Winter Workspace will allow him to begin conceptualizing this piece and to continue work on a series of large drawings he plans to make into a book. Chuke received his BFA from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2011.

Pictured above: Dome and Double Nymph, 2012, wood, glass, steel, and artifacts, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.