Odera Igbokwe

@odera.bsky.social

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🧚🏿‍♂️ Painter / Illustrator / Movement Artist—using this space as a sketchbook, improvisational energy bursts, and trying to make socials fun again ✨ www.Odera.net ✨ 🌞 patreon.com/Odera Some posts are NSFW / queer & embodied / get me bodied/

Zelda stands in the center of the triforce. The master sword broken into shards. She wields a pink sword as she wears a golden metal armored leotard with a sheer skirt underneath. . Behind her are two figures as portraits in a dreamstate. Hylia and Sheik.
A pair of hands emerge from the darkness carrying soil and a kola nut plant
A self portrait made with charcoal lines and litho crayon. A 2009 or 2010 Odera poses dramatically, exploring chiaroscuro and contropasto.
Sketchbook entry from today inspired by Fela wives
A sketchbook and journal with a drawing of a stylish lady who is mostly human and part plane, with hair that forms into the words travel
The Strength is the avatar of power, sustenance, and balance. A robed figure stands on top of a massive mythological mammal covered in plants, leaves, and plantains emerging from their horns. In spite of and because of these earthly elements, they glow with the strength of the sun. The Strength is the bond, the possibility, and the ecosystem that these figures create. The Strength asks us to question how we wield power and who gets to define power. The Strength asks for discernment and balance in determining who do we deem as worthy of humanity, who is asserted as a god, and who is viewed as a monster. ↑ Power, Harmony, Sustenance, Passion, Bonding, Courage ❂ Anywanwu, Aja, Leo  ↓ Fear, Doubt, Disconnection, Anxiety, Fragility
Black people from the diaspora march on the bottom half of the compositon, surrounded by the land, and golden rolling hills. Above them are golden clouds dancing and forming across a giant figure cradling the sun
A figure emerges from a green, blue, golden river. She wears golden fabrics and accessories. A river pours from her neck. Her left breast is sewn. Gold marking bisect her face as her eyes glow the same color. Behind her a landscape of river beds and lush islands. #Blackart #queerart #painting #odera odera igbokwe archives
Odera poses in studio with a Sailor Mars tshirt, red shorts, red sneakers, socks with a black geometric face, and earrings that are gold and black
Odera Redesigns the cast of sailor moon From the Odera.net archives around 2013 A Black Sailor Mars with large billowing curls poses with a hand on hip. She wears Black violet tights, red heels, an a Nigerian inspired belt. Her hand has a giant flame brewing. The Mars Sigil glows behind her.
A page of ultramarine blue and muted blue grey greenn. These colors form a figure emerging from the picture plane looking to the side
A messy palette of oils Ultramarine blues and pyrolle reds and whites
Odera holds a paintbrush meant for acrylics and oils and moves it across the surface of their screen with photoshop running. On the screen is a Black queer femme composed of violets, browns, orange, and rainbow glimmers staring directly into the viewers eyed
A non binary larger than life diva in a pink gown and heart shaped hair poses with wide open arms. Iridescent rainbow colors dance across the sky. In the clouds are couples embracing, cuddling, and kissing
A collective ancestor reminiscent of Marsha P Johnson wears a floral crown and iridescent rainbow makeup. She looks down lovingly at a group of femmes embodying the five elements of vogue
An intergenerational group of Black women, femmes, and butch nonbinaries, and youth embrace in a protective hug. They all merge into one as though they are wearing the same intertwined golden robe.
Blue and umber hands hold a single cowrie shell, as water dances, undulates, and moves throughout the palms and picture plane
Blue and umber hands hold a single cowrie shell, as water dances, undulates, and moves throughout the palms and picture plane
A mixed media traditional ink and charcoal drawing painted digitally for Dawn Richard's Castles A face appears from the fog of grey blues, with their head turning into a mountain of castles At the bottom of the composition are five lights turning, twisting, crossed, with the center line rising slightly above without as many textural obstructions
Acrylic on board black femme stops to smell the roses She is composed of pink rose es and floral gourds that emerge from her hair and the environment White ink dances throughout the image like a constellation forming. Aa sigil. A crest. The image is composed of pinks, greens, browns, and light blues
It’s Pronounced Plantain, not Plantain is a large scale oil painting that features two non binary figures cruising amongst the plantain trees. The left figure is standing and dramatically posed with their left hand poking and emerging from the corner of their eye socket. Their thigh and dink are out, and their torso is an abstracted glow. The figure to the right embracing the figure to the left. Their arm is ravelled between the left’s thighs, ballsac, taint area The colors are a glow of green, yellow ochre, green gold, and strange almost toxic greens contrasting with warm orange browns
A photo series exploring the diasporic connections between Nigeria and Brazil, and how those communities came to Canada. The fabric featured in Funeral Rites acts a through line to further disperse the collective grief, and acts as a transformational connector. Instead of the fabric being heavy and in need to disperse and shave down trauma, it acts as a lattice of care and explores new ways to express Black Queer technologies, ways of knowing, and creating new access points here in Vancouver. Image one depicts Marcelo sitting on a stool, as they receive a crown of fabric
Odera in studio in their outfit of the day in celebration of Eke Cinnamon brown checkered pants Orange socks Red chunky fluevog sneakers Multicolored afrikyea belt Cinnamon toasted red pinks and violets A head scarf with brown and warm birds
A large scale oil painting A grey purple figure sots in a fabric covered chair. Their head splits open with golden light emitting and trying to break free. Throughout the picture plane are collaged journal pages, self references to the spirit child painting, visual teferences to the albums One in a million by Aaliyah and Butterfym by Mariah Carey. In the background is a large loose portrait if a Black woman perhaps therapist or guardian eyes closed and witnessing the main figure
An oil painting of two African hands. One hand holds a watering can. While the other receives the washing. Peppered across the canvas are dancing brush marks.
A painting of Essun, a powerful Oroene conjuring throughout the picture plane. She looks upwards and silvery lines of light surround her.