The work of Nigerian-American artist Osi Audu focuses on the dualism of form and void, the tangible and intangible. Using a variety of mediums, including acrylic, graphite, pastel and wool on canvas or paper, he examines scientific, philosophical and cultural concepts surrounding the relationship between mind and body. His compositions are often inspired by the abstract geometric possibilities he sees in African art and cultural objects and the concept of the head as a center of waking and dreaming consciousness.
Audu's work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.; The Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey; the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York; Hood Museum, New Hampshire; Horniman Museum & Gardens, the Wellcome Trust, the British Museum and the Nigeria High Commission, London; Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, Michigan; the Embassy of Switzerland in Nigeria, Lagos; the National Gallery of Art, Lagos; SchmidtBank, Weiden, Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth, Germany; Fidelity Corporation Art Collection, Boston, and the Microsoft Art Collection.