{"id":8032,"date":"2017-01-16T16:33:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T15:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8032"},"modified":"2017-12-01T16:26:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T15:26:36","slug":"buraimoh-gbadamosi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/buraimoh-gbadamosi\/","title":{"rendered":"BURAIMOH, Gbadamosi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sculptor Address: c\/o Susanne Wenger, PO Box 43, Oshogbo, Oshun State. Birth: 1936, in Oshogbo. Training: Trained as a master carpenter, worked with Susanne Wenger in Oshogbo. Profile: Creates stone figures for the Oshogbo Shrines. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Contemporary African Art,&#8221; Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, March 13-May 4, 1969. [traveled in the USA from 1969-1973 to: Studio Museum in Harlem and New YorkUniversity, New York; University of Missouri, Columbia; Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland; West Virginia State College, Institute; North East Missouri State College, Kirskville; Rio Hondo College, Whittier, California; Compton Community College, Compton, California; Citrus College, Azusa, California; Mira Costa College, Oceanside, California, and Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, California]. &#8220;Contemporary African Art,&#8221; Camden Arts Centre, London, August-September 1969. &#8220;Contemporary Nigerian Art,&#8221; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, July 25- September 1, 1974. &#8220;Exhibition of Works by Susanne Wenger,&#8221; Goethe Institute, Lagos, 1976. &#8220;Moderne Kunst in Afrika,&#8221; Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1980. &#8220;National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 25-October1, 1980. &#8220;New Sacred Art of Oshogbo,&#8221; Goethe Institute, Lagos, 1982. &#8220;De Goden Zijn Niet Dood,&#8221; Provinciehuis, Zwolle, The Netherlands, February 5-March 5, 1982. &#8220;SilverJubilee National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September26- October 1, 1985. &#8220;Art from the African Diaspora: Becoming Visible,&#8221; Aljira, Newark, NewJersey, USA, February 12-March 13, 1988. &#8220;Contemporary Arts from Western Nigeria,&#8221; Zamana Gallery, London, October17, 1988-January 8, 1989. &#8220;Zeitgenossische Nigerianische Kunst,&#8221; Bonn, Bocholt, and Monchengladbach, Germany, July-October 1989. &#8220;Contemporary Art from Western Nigeria,&#8221; Africa Centre, London, June 19-July 13, 1990. Commissions Carved doors, Oshogbo shrines, Oshogbo. Carved pillars and doors, National Black Theatre, Harlem, New York, USA, 1990. Public Collections Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Germany. Sculptures: &#8220;Sitter&#8221; and eight untitled. Mbari Art, Washington, DC. Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Gouache and beads on board: &#8220;Good Deed of Everyman,&#8221; 1965. Bibliography Wenger, Susanne. The Timeless Mindof the Sacred. Ibadan: Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, 1977. 54pp. illus. [None by Gbadamosi]. Wenger, Susanne &#038; Gert Chesi. A Life with the Gods in their Yoruba Homeland. Worgl, Austria: Perlinger, 1983. 235pp. illus. (some color). Highet, Juliet. Contemporary Art from Western Nigeria; [exhibition held at the Africa Center, London, June 19-July 13, 1990]. [folder], illus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8032","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8032","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23024,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8032\/revisions\/23024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8032"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}