Eroica Flora

Chino Amobi’s series of oil-on-canvas still life paintings of exotic floral species, echoes his accelerated experience traveling and performing throughout the world as a celebrated musician.

Chino Amobi approaches painting with the same vernacular as his music compositions, and vice versa; using sound as a means of immersing the listener into the space of a landscape, envisioning each moment in his musical arrangements as a painting. So too, his paintings frame visions of life bursting forth in a fevered neon dream with sonic vibrations: the exotic bloom a proxy for his entranced audience on the dance-floor, at the height of ecstasy, at the peak of inflorescence.

Seraphim Landing, 2020
Oil, Acrylic, Airbrush on Canvas
61 x 61 cm
24 1/8 x 24 1/8 in
Courtesy of the artist and Fitzpatrick Gallery I Photo credit: David Hale

Tokyo, 2020
Oil, Acrylic, Airbrush on Canvas
91.4 x 61 cm
36 x 24 in
Courtesy of the artist and Fitzpatrick Gallery I Photo credit: David Hale

Warszawa, 2020
Oil, Acrylic, Airbrush on Canvas
91.4 x 61 cm
36 x 24 in
Courtesy of the artist and Fitzpatrick Gallery I Photo credit: David Hale

Tuscaloosa, 2020
Oil, Acrylic, Flashe on Canvas
61 x 45.7 cm
24 x 18 in
Courtesy of the artist and Fitzpatrick Gallery I Photo credit: David Hale

Disembodied, 2020
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
61 x 45.7 cm
24 x 18 in
Courtesy of the artist and Fitzpatrick Gallery I Photo credit: David Hale

LA, 2020
Oil, Acrylic, Airbrush on Canvas
61 x 45.7 cm
24 x 18 in
Courtesy of the artist and Fitzpatrick Gallery I Photo credit: David Hale

Vienna, 2020
Oil, Acrylic, Flashe on Canvas
61 x 45.7 cm
24 x 18 in
Courtesy of the artist and Fitzpatrick Gallery I Photo credit: David Hale

Budapest, 2020
Oil, Acrylic, Airbrush on Canvas
40.6 x 30.5 cm
16 x 12 in
Courtesy of the artist and Fitzpatrick Gallery I Photo credit: David Hale

Chesterfield, 2020
Oil, Acrylic, Flashe on Canvas
61 x 45.7 cm
24 x 18 in
Courtesy of the artist and Fitzpatrick Gallery I Photo credit: David Hale