The Washington Post - In the galleries: Four artists’ concepts of Black identity

Cultural DCMarch 3, 2023Nyugen

The Guardian - ‘Giving homage to the past’: Nyugen E Smith’s fascinating found object art

Cultural DCFebruary 17, 2023Nyugen

Washington City Paper - New Jersey Artist Nyugen E. Smith Considers Climate Change in the Caribbean for CulturalDC

Cultural DCFebruary 17, 2023Nyugen

District Fray Magazine - Building a ‘Bundle House’ with Artist Nyugen E. Smith

Caribbean-American artist Nyugen E. Smith unpacks what it means to rebuild a home after crisis and what was lost in the African diaspora in his latest work, “Bundlehouse: Ancient Future Memory.” When Smith was selected for CulturalDC’s Capital Artist Residency, he was on a mission to make additions to his on-going “Bundlehouse” series. In reflecting on the Indigenous-Congolese Luba people, Smith takes influence from Luba ceremonial objects in his work, including Lukasa – the Luba memory board. Drawing on Lukasa, the artist expands on the idea of memory, depicting various identities of Black and African diasporic descendants.

Cultural DCFebruary 3, 2023Nyugen

Arts Intel Report - Nyugen E. Smith: Bundlehouse, Ancient Future Memory

Cultural DCFebruary 1, 2023Nyugen

DCist - 12 Virtual And IRL Things To Do Around D.C. This Week

Cultural DCJanuary 30, 2023Nyugen

The Art Newspaper - Sculptor Nyugen E. Smith’s new show in Washington, DC turns discarded objects into art

An exhibition featuring sculptor Nyugen E. Smith’s most recent body of work opens this week at CulturalDC, a nonprofit art space in Washington DC.

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