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Look across Eneyi Oruwari’s gallery and a pattern starts to surface: a lot of these paintings are about going somewhere. Riot Season. Up and Down. Escape. Journey of a Thousand Miles. Even Grey Day carries that low hum of being mid-transition, stuck somewhere between one state and another. This isn’t a coincidence — it’s the […]

Some titles do all the work before you’ve even seen the canvas. “She Reads the News Too” is one of them. There’s a long, tired history of women — especially Black women — being painted, photographed, and written about as decoration. Beautiful, still, ornamental. Present in a room but somehow absent from its conversations. Eneyi

Eneyi Oruwari’s gallery holds a quiet little family of paintings — Mirror I, Mirror II, Mirror III, Mirror IV, Mirror V — five pieces that don’t shout for attention the way a single large canvas might, but reward anyone willing to look at them side by side. A mirror is never just glass. It’s the