IT’S NEVER ONE THING

Solo Exhibit – Deime Ubani

This exhibit will be available for viewing until August 14, 2023.

It’s never one thing.

Humans experience multiple, collective, individual, and overlapping states of being consistently (daily, weekly, yearly, and by the second) throughout one’s life. These states can encompass our emotional, environmental, physical, physiological, intellectual, individual, and collective experiences. 

The responses to these varied human experiences often collide with one another, resulting in various outputs and state changes. Although some of these states and outputs can be controlled or altered when one seeks “different types of experiences in different ways (or rather the lack thereof), the results of such experiences can also vary between individuals. A lot of factors – personal context, personalities, preferences, values, and more – will come into play in determining how we begin the experience process itself, to the results we take away from it” (Wu, 2020).

During the creation of artwork in the present state of states, moving through different realms of the human experience while carrying the effects of those states where: memories exist in the present, happiness exists in sadness. Sunshine in the spry. Scents long gone. Blood long dried. 

“A recent study suggests that there are far more basic emotions than previously believed and, in a study published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, researchers identified 27 different categories of emotion. We can also experience a combination of emotions at the same time” (Wu, 2020).

My materials and themes fluctuate, mimicking the web of realms. Each realm can call for a different material, different method of application of materials and diverse subject matters. Hence there is no set title for this show, but simply an observation of life’s revolving process of there is never one thing at a time.

References: 

Wu, J. (2020, Dec. 10th). EXPANDING THE COMMON MODULE: DIFFERENT TYPES OF HUMAN EXPERIENCES. Talent-100. https://talent-100.com.au/blog/expanding-common-module-different-types-human-experiences/

Deimi Ubani

Deime’ Ubani was born in Nassau, Bahamas in 1988. Being of Bahamian, Barbadian, and Nigerian descent provided a colorful heritage that influenced her love for using art to capture memories, cultural heritage and generational legacy. Throughout her early years, Deime’ was always drawn to abstracts. Even if she did not yet know art in theory, she soon discovered different colors could be used to evoke different feelings of emotions. Her interest in the arts was encouraged by close family members. Her grandmother, a beautician by trade, was also a ceramist who loved knitting large quilts for each family member. Coming from a line of creatives, my grandmother’s house was decorated with artwork varying in mediums from past generations also.

After graduating from high school, Deime’ opted to attend the former College of The Bahamas, now the University of The Bahamas, and obtained her Associate’s degree in Art in 2009. She then began to delve deeper into abstraction and continues to use various mediums to obtain the balance that she prioritizes in her pieces.

Deime’s work has been featured by The D’Aguilar Art Foundation, The Central Bank of The Bahamas, the Salus Project, and the SeeMe Art Takes Times Square art show (2013). In June of 2014, her pieces were among those chosen as part of the interior design of the Baha Mar resort in the nation’s capital. You can browse some of her past works through Ubani Artworks on social media platforms. Deime’ still lives and works in Nassau, Bahamas, as she constantly draws inspiration from home in the past and in the present.

If you’re interested in buying Deime Ubani’s artwork, please contact us via email at sixty2sixtyartgallery@gmail.com or by phone at 1 242 8142872.