Rendition with Toyin Odutola

To focus visitors' attention on objects from the Asian Art Museum's collection, artist Toyin Odutola provided everyone with swatches of different color combinations influencing her current work. Visitors used the color swatches and went on a hunt in the galleries, attempting to find artworks that were as close a match as possible. Once participants found a match, they took a photo of the object and posted it on Instagram or Twitter using #colormatch. Odutola kept her eyes on the hashtag all night, drawing a new portrait based on participant findings in the galleries.

About the Artist
Nigerian-born Toyin Odutola grew up mostly in Alabama, received her BA from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (2008) and MFA in painting and drawing at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco (2012). Featured in Forbes' 2012, "30 Under 30 List" in Art and Style and the Huffington Post's "Black Artists: 30 Contemporary Art Makers Under 40 You Should Know", Odutola is a gaining notoriety for her intricate and laborious portraits using ballpoint pen, markers, and ink. New York Times art critic, Holland Cotter describes the result, "The colors that begin each portrait show through at the end. Beaming through chinks in the dark weave they look like stars in a night sky or filtered rainbows."

About The Artists Drawing Club
From February through September in 2013, this series invited a local contemporary artist to use the museum as a project platform, drawing inspiration from the institution to direct a unique experience for the visitor each month. The Artists Drawing Club provides a new lens to see the museum, its collection and the world around us through the perspectives of nine contemporary artists.