"Return God to Africa" by Fab 5 Freddy

Fab 5 Freddy’s iconic painting series Still Lifes in Space brought a fresh, hip-hop and futurist aesthetic to the classic genre of Western Painting. A prime example, Return God to Africa features a central deity amongst spinning planets, fruit bowls, wine goblets, and gestural swirls that orbit frenetically against the painting’s deep background. Forefronting a divine and magisterial being, the gravitas and bounty he bestows, this painting explores the crossroads where terrestrial materiality and extraterrestrial dreamscapes converge.