Joy Yamusangie - Feeling Good

Now Gallery

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NOW Gallery on the Greenwich Peninsula announces the 2022 Young Artist Commission Feeling Good by Joy Yamusangie. The Young Artist Commission, now in its 4th year, is awarded to outstanding rising talents in the fields of visual arts and illustration.

Working closely with Joy, the exhibition design is a playful interpretation of the artist's paintings.

We developed Joy’s vision of a jazz club by shaping the space into two distinct yet connected areas. One is dedicated to live jazz and programming, featuring a piano and a restored pub counter, while the other introduces a partially open entrance inspired by the expressive atmosphere found in Joy’s paintings.

Yamusangie invites the viewer to interrogate constructs around identity and celebrate self-expression. The artist conjures up the stylish Feeling Good Jazz club, creating intimate and evocative spaces to inhabit NOW Gallery and immerse the viewer. An accompanying jazz score deliberately contextualises the exhibition's physical space, revealing deeply personal narratives.

Yamusangie's coveted works use textural materials to convey a sophisticated and multifarious style that features illustration, collage, painting, and sculptural interventions. Their work often features expressive mark-making and deliberate, flat, vivid blocks of colour to create figurative renderings.