Canyon Dreamscape (Study)

Artist: Jeyifous, Olalekan

Date: 2020

Medium: Ink on paper

Artwork Dimensions: 14 15/16 x 33 in.

County Department: Arts and Culture

Artwork Site: Civic Art Storage

About the Artwork: This artwork is a study for Canyon Dreamscape. The artwork for this project is inspired by the rolling landforms of the Wilson Canyon terrain, which provides the backdrop for the facility, as well as the proposed planting schedule, including nearby flora and fauna, which populate the local environs.

About the Artist: Olalekan Jeyifous received a BArch from Cornell University and is a Brooklyn-based Artist/Designer whose work often re-imagines social spaces around issues that explore the relationship between architecture, community, and the environment. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Studio Museum in Harlem, the MoMA, the Vitra Design Museum and the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain. He was named one of the 2020 Emerging Voices by the Architectural League and has received a number of grants for his artwork such as a fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and the Brooklyn Arts Council. He has recently completed artist residencies with the Headlands Center for the Arts, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Drawing Center’s Open Sessions program, and he was a Wilder Green Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. In addition to his extensive exhibition history, Jeyifous has spent over a decade creating large-scale artwork for a variety of public spaces. He was commissioned, with collaborator Amanda Williams, to create a monument for Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm as part of the City of New York’s “She Built NYC” initiative. His banner wrap for the Corcoran Garage in Durham, NC received the Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Year in Review Award in 2019 and he has also created a 50ft-tall sculpture for the 2017 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and 4 large sculptures for Public Square in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.