{"id":7373,"date":"2017-01-09T16:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7373"},"modified":"2017-11-30T16:30:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T15:30:23","slug":"benson-ake","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/benson-ake\/","title":{"rendered":"AKE, Benson"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Sculptor Address: Jiraj Gallery, PO Box 1001, Ikeja, Lagos. Birth: 1949, in Oshogbo, Oshun State. Training: BA, Ahmadu Bello University, 1973, specializing in sculpture. Profile: Lecturer, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, until 1978; freelance artist. Member: Society of Nigerian Artists. Group Exhibitions FESTAC &#8217;77, Lagos, 1977. &#8220;Exhibition of Works by Contemporary Nigerian Artists,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 4-9, 1977. &#8220;National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 30-October 7, 1978. &#8220;Exhibition of Nigerian Traditional and Contemporary Art,&#8221; Lagos, 1978. &#8220;Exhibition of Nigerian Contemporary Art,&#8221; Dakar, Senegal, November 25December 7, 1980. Commissions Fiberglass medallions, African Development Bank, Abidjan, Cdte d&#8217;lvoire, 1978. Public Collections National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. Wood sculptures: &#8220;Mask Ensemble&#8221; and &#8220;Head.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7373","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7373"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}