Artist Imo Imeh in NYC

A good friend and big brother of mine, artist Imo Nse Imeh is being displayed in New York City. I met him during an open mic here in Detroit when the feature was another mutual friend of ours poet David Ragland. He was impressed with some of my poetry and I was invited to recite while at his art exhibit for the University of Toledo. Now he's in the display "Wearing Spirit". "Wearing Spirit" is a group show curated by Shantrelle P. Lewis in NYC, running March 11 - May 21, 2010. He is one of 25 artists featured in the show. His contribution was a large painting titled "Mechanisms in Uyai" (48 x 96 Inches, Mixed Media on Canvas). His work discusses the Ibibio philosophical and aesthetic traditions of seclusion and ritual fattening by way of the mbopo sorority. It describes the newfound post-seclusion identity of the "fattened bride" as icon.