Representative work by Sam Nhlengethwa
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Sam Nhlengethwa

b. 1955, Springs, South Africa · South African · Based in Johannesburg, South Africa

  • Rorke's Drift Art and Craft Centre, KwaZulu-Natal
  • Collage
  • Lithography
  • Oil Painting

Across Painting; collage, Sam Nhlengethwa has developed a practice centered on jazz, domestic interiors and social history assembled through collage-based paintings rooted in Black South African cultural life. The work is best understood in relation to Contemporary South African art, where material choices and visual structure carry as much weight as subject matter.

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