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Stay tuned for our next episode with FERG! Light Work founder, Folasade Ologundudu and FERG discuss the rapper, musician...
05/19/2026

Stay tuned for our next episode with FERG!

Light Work founder, Folasade Ologundudu and FERG discuss the rapper, musician, and all around artists’ journey from his early years in Harlem to the world he’s building through art.
Born and raised in Harlem, Ferg was deeply immersed in the arts from an early age. His father, Darold Ferguson, was a recognized local designer who owned a boutique and famously designed the logos for Uptown Records and Bad Boy Records. Inspired by his father, Ferg initially focused on fashion, attending a Manhattan art and design high school, creating his own clothing and jewelry lines, and even selling belts and customized T-shirts.
Folasade Ologundudu is a prominent Brooklyn-born writer, independent curator, podcast host, and multidisciplinary creative. She is highly regarded in the contemporary art world for her work exploring identity, race, and global culture, specifically focused on amplifying BIPOC artists and the African diaspora. She moved to Harlem as a teenage and lived there for over 15 years before moving to lower Manhattan.

1-54 African Art Fair Takeover! Folasade Ologundudu () visits Kayode Adegbola of Adegbola Art Gallery based in Lagos, Ni...
05/17/2026

1-54 African Art Fair Takeover! Folasade Ologundudu () visits Kayode Adegbola of Adegbola Art Gallery based in Lagos, Nigeria to learn about Aaron Kudi’s latest works in To Carry My Cross presented in this years’ edition of 1-54 African Art Fair.
Aaron Kudi, born in Bauchi Nigeria, lives and works in London. His practice as an abstract painter holds two irresolvable forces in permanent suspension: the empirical and the devotional, the observed and the felt, the structure that seeks to name and the spirit that refuses. Kudi develops large-scale works on glazed tarpaulin and cotton duck canvas in liquid metal, ink, enamel and acrylic. The studio operates as a living ecology where materials assert their own internal logic: liquid metal oxidizing against enamel, surfaces cracking and healing under atmospheric pressure.
Adegbola Gallery is a Lagos-based gallery founded in 2025. The gallery presents a focused program of exhibitions and projects centered on artists whose practices are research-led and materially rigorous, with particular attention to questions of space, history, and perception.
Today is the final day to view Aaron’s works and visit Adegbola at 1-54 African Art Fair () .⁠

1-54 African Art Fair Takeover! Folasade Ologundudu () meets Damien Davis at Kates Ferri Projects to discover his latest...
05/17/2026

1-54 African Art Fair Takeover! Folasade Ologundudu () meets Damien Davis at Kates Ferri Projects to discover his latest body of work celebrating the Black barbershop as a space of masculinity and care. ⁠⁠
Damien Davis is a Brooklyn-based artist, born in Crowley, Louisiana and raised in Phoenix Arizona. His practice explores historical representations of blackness by seeking to unpack the visual language of various cultures and question how these societies code/decode representations of race through craft, design and digital modes of production.⁠⁠
KATES-FERRI PROJECTS focuses on emerging artists and new voices from all over the world, often overlooked in the contemporary art world. Our program – ranging from paintings and sculptures to mixed media art and installations – aims to create a platform for global conversation while building a diverse, inclusive, and engaged community of art lovers.⁠⁠
Founded in 2013 by Touria El Glaoui, 1-54 is the first and only international fair dedicated to contemporary African art. With three editions per year—in London, New York and Marrakech, 1-54 is the leading global art fair committed to providing visibility to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. ⁠
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Today is the final day to view Damien’s work at 1-54 African Art Fair ().

ON VIEW NOW: Sanford Biggers, The Gift of Tongues at Marianne Boesky. This labyrinth of an exhibition brings together th...
05/02/2026

ON VIEW NOW: Sanford Biggers, The Gift of Tongues at Marianne Boesky.

This labyrinth of an exhibition brings together three distinct bodies of work and transforms the gallery into an immersive environment to present his oeuvre of paintings, sculptures, and textile works that consider notions of history and the narratives of possibility that pervade it.

For The Gift of Tongues, Biggers transforms the gallery into a playhouse of sorts. Amidst this carefully constructed backdrop, discreet vignettes emerge, revealing themselves in careful sightlines as viewers find their way through the space.

In 2023, founder of Light Work, Folasade Ologundudu, interviewed Sanford on Everything is Connected, discussing the myriad of themes and inspirations that have come to define his practice. Have you heard it?

Check out the exhibition on view now through June 13, and listen to the episode. Tap the link in our stories and listen to it today!

Attending EXPO Chicago? Check out our booths not to be missed! Presenting a historical collection of Nigerian modernist...
04/11/2026

Attending EXPO Chicago? Check out our booths not to be missed!

Presenting a historical collection of Nigerian modernists, Adegbola gallery showcases artists from the Zaria Art Society.

Founded in 1958 at the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology (now Ahmadu Bello University), was a pivotal group of Nigerian artists who rejected European-centric art education in favor of “Natural Synthesis.”

Led by figures like Uche Okeke and Bruce Onobrakpeya, they blended indigenous visual traditions—such as Uli and Nok art—with modern techniques to forge a new Nigerian identity before independence.

A gentle reminder that while the Art historical canon has not platformed these works the way it should have, these artists were working in spite of an oppressive system that sought to marginalize their creative genius.

04/02/2026

"History is always recorded somewhere. You just gotta know how to dig deep enough to find it." - Lyndon Barrois Sr.

Artist and animator on why "shut up and dribble" is a confession of ignorance, and what happens when you actually do the digging.

Black jockeys winning 15 of the first 28 Kentucky Derbies. Jack Johnson. Major Taylor. Precursors to Althea Gibson. The history is there. They just made it very hard to find.

Everything is Connected - EP110: Lyndon Barrois Sr. in conversation with Folasade Ologundudu.

Listen to the full podcast on LightWork or anywhere you listen to podcasts🎙️ Link in bio.

04/01/2026

"There's childish and there's childlike. You don't ever want to always be childish, but you never want to lose childlike." — John Scott, via Lyndon Barrois Sr.

on the piece of wisdom from his mentor that never left him, and why, no matter how meticulous or intense the work gets, the joy of playing with his miniatures is something he'll carry until the day he can't do it anymore.

Everything is Connected — EP110: Lyndon Barrois Sr. in conversation with Folasade Ologundudu.

Listen to the full podcast on LightWork 🎙️ Link in bio.

03/31/2026

"I realized the discarded wrappers were foil on one side and paper on the other. And if I sculpted with the paper side out, I could color it. I just started making my own toys." — Lyndon Barrois Sr.

Artist, animator, and VFX veteran on how his mom's chewed gum wrappers became his medium, and why Hot Wheels cars with no drivers was simply unacceptable.

What started as a kid solving a problem became one of the most singular art practices in the world.

Everything is Connected — EP110: Lyndon Barrois Sr. in conversation with Folasade Ologundudu.

Listen to the full podcast on LightWork or anywhere you listen to podcasts🎙️ Link in bio.

Spring doesn’t just mean flowers in bloom, it also means a slew of new exhibitions are open and on view. Here are our to...
03/23/2026

Spring doesn’t just mean flowers in bloom, it also means a slew of new exhibitions are open and on view. Here are our top picks of shows and artworks not to be missed this spring in NYC.

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The weeks and months leading up to New York’s Art Week in the spring and Frieze New York, 1-54 Art Fair, TEFAF, Independent and more, are some of the most interesting and exciting times to visit exhibitions before the rush and crowds of the spring season comes in full swing.

Before the fair, openings stretch into the evening, sidewalks gather small constellations of artists, curators, and wanderers, and the city feels briefly porous—its creative communities overlapping in unison.

03/21/2026

"Art is very risky. When you kind of think of the idea of getting a pencil and paper and turning that into a career, just showing people your framework and letting them judge you or interact with you based on your ideas and your mind. I think it's very bold." - Leonard Iheagwam Soldier

on what it means to find your people through art: the exhibitions, the theses, the conversations, and the quiet relief of realizing you come from a long line of people who decided to do this same radical thing, which is to make their inner world visible.

Everything is Connected Season 6 EP 109: Leonard Iheagwam Soldier in conversation with Folasade Ologundudu. Listen to the full podcast on LightWork 🎙️ Link in bio.

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