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Artist: Iman Toure (Columbus, Ohio)
NOT FOR SALE. This work is part of the exhibition and is not available for purchase.
Year: 2026 | Medium: Assemblage, Barbies, headphones,button pins, beads, various yarns & Fabrics, glitter, fake candles, pepsi can, cardboard, duct tape, hopes and dreams | Dimensions: 35 x16 x 15.5 inches | Display: Freestanding sculpture
Artist Statement
As a mixed media artist, my practice is based around the creation of a visual language through interdisciplinary artistic exchanges and material excess. Possessing a deep curiosity within the visual emotionalities of grief and self discovery, my work reaches for the transcendence of self. Utilizing assemblage, "Lil Grrl" Reliquary is a way of immortalizing Black Joy and moments of girlhood. Adorned with previously owned and found objects, these artifacts act as portals of unabashed expression, forming the empowered individual. Adopting Maximalist sensibilities, this work also speaks to an additional dialogue of maximalism as black cultural reclamation, refusing the notations imposed by minimalism as it corresponds to respectability notions.
About the Artist
Iman is a mixed media artist and based in Columbus, Ohio with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Textiles from Kent State University. Grounded in material experimentation and personal narrative, they work primarily in assemblage and installation.
Iman's work primarily focuses on grief and yearning through assemblage whilst utilizing maximalist aesthetics. Driven by found objects as pillars of meanings, color languages, and the innate reaction of combining materials, Iman’s artworks are made through intuitive approaches that outwardly articulate the emotionality associated with living and being.
Focusing within the cross cultural visuality of domesticity and world building, Iman creates artworks that serve as multidimensional experiences.These spaces invite viewers to navigate memory through proximity, positioning ideas of self within a state of archival and site, where excess becomes a language of absence and desire.
https://www.instagram.com/purpl333333
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.
Artist: Iman Toure (Columbus, Ohio)
NOT FOR SALE. This work is part of the exhibition and is not available for purchase.
Year: 2026 | Medium: Assemblage, Barbies, headphones,button pins, beads, various yarns & Fabrics, glitter, fake candles, pepsi can, cardboard, duct tape, hopes and dreams | Dimensions: 35 x16 x 15.5 inches | Display: Freestanding sculpture
Artist Statement
As a mixed media artist, my practice is based around the creation of a visual language through interdisciplinary artistic exchanges and material excess. Possessing a deep curiosity within the visual emotionalities of grief and self discovery, my work reaches for the transcendence of self. Utilizing assemblage, "Lil Grrl" Reliquary is a way of immortalizing Black Joy and moments of girlhood. Adorned with previously owned and found objects, these artifacts act as portals of unabashed expression, forming the empowered individual. Adopting Maximalist sensibilities, this work also speaks to an additional dialogue of maximalism as black cultural reclamation, refusing the notations imposed by minimalism as it corresponds to respectability notions.
About the Artist
Iman is a mixed media artist and based in Columbus, Ohio with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Textiles from Kent State University. Grounded in material experimentation and personal narrative, they work primarily in assemblage and installation.
Iman's work primarily focuses on grief and yearning through assemblage whilst utilizing maximalist aesthetics. Driven by found objects as pillars of meanings, color languages, and the innate reaction of combining materials, Iman’s artworks are made through intuitive approaches that outwardly articulate the emotionality associated with living and being.
Focusing within the cross cultural visuality of domesticity and world building, Iman creates artworks that serve as multidimensional experiences.These spaces invite viewers to navigate memory through proximity, positioning ideas of self within a state of archival and site, where excess becomes a language of absence and desire.
https://www.instagram.com/purpl333333
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.