Edun Art

There are moments when the work begins to speak beyond the studio.

Grateful to be featured in Bmore Art where the conversation extends into what remains withheld, what resists articulation, and what stays just within reach.

“I found over the years that distortion is what pulls you into figure. At the beginning it’s more realistic. Then I start to remove. That’s how the silence is a structural part, to distill it down to images that capture the essence”

Within Reach of Silence continues to unfold at Gallery Blue Door through April 18.

The show closes on Saturday the 18th with an artist talk at 4PM.

The room remembers.

Figures hold their ground; not as declarations, but as thresholds.
Posture becomes language.
Gaze becomes resistance.
Silence does the work speech cannot.

Within Reach of Silence has been less about what is shown, and more about what refuses to resolve.

Thank you to everyone who entered the space,
stood still, and stayed long enough to feel it.

Closing April 18

Gallery Blue Door, 833 Park Ave Baltimore.





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Untitled (Ori I) oil stick on canvas, 2026
36x24 inches

Ori I marks the beginning of a series exploring the Yoruba concept of Ori; the inner head, the seat of destiny, and the spiritual essence of the self.

Eschewing the distance of the brush, I work directly with oil sticks and my fingers to literally “build” the subject. This process is an act of tactile labor; the thick, impasto surfaces are not merely painted but are sculpted into existence. The heavy textures and raw, smeared pigments reflect the friction between the external world and the internal spirit. In Ori I, the gaze is the anchor, a pale, piercing light emerging from a dense, geological darkness, suggesting a soul that is both ancient and currently in the process of becoming.

Composition in blue and ochre, oil stick on canvas. 2026

Working directly. No brushes, just the weight of the oil stick against the canvas.

There’s an honesty in this medium; every mark is permanent, every texture is a physical push. I wanted to carve this figure out of the blue, building the ochre highlights until the face felt like it was emerging from the stone.

It’s a conversation between the hand and the mood.

Black Obsidian

In Black Obsidian (2026, oil stick on canvas), the face is rendered as a surface formed under pressure rather than a vehicle for expression. Layered and scraped oil stick compacts the features into a dense, light-absorbing mass, with the mouth dragged downward as if speech has been withheld. Against an acidic yellow-green field, the head absorbs its atmosphere, holding silence as compression rather than absence and advancing Temi Wynston Edun’s exploration of opacity and interior restraint.






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Polarized. oil stick on canvas 2026

Certain surfaces are built to filter light; others are burdened with meaning.

An older work from the archive, circa 2020.

I realize now how much of my current language was already forming here..
the hood as enclosure,
the figure as a small island of warmth inside a field of silence,
paint doing more suggesting than declaring.

The questions haven’t changed.
Only the patience.

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New work

Conch Beach
Oil stick on canvas

Listening at the edge of things.

THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who came to my opening reception on Saturday evening and also to all who made it possible, from the bottom of my heart I say thank you for such a wonderful evening. Truly my cup runs over, blessings to you all.

Baltimore friends! I’ll be on WJZ-TV (CBS Baltimore) tomorrow between 9:00-9:30 AM to talk about my first solo exhibition and this Saturday’s opening reception at 4 PM at Gallery Blue Door.

I’d love for you to tune in - and if you’re in the area, come join me in person for Within Reach of Silence.
Can’t wait to see you there!

“My work centers on figurative painting as a site of restraint rather than declaration.”

This exhibition considers silence not as absence,
but as structure
shaping posture, gaze, and presence
without explanation or resolve.

Within Reach of Silence opens
January 17 · 4–6 PM
at Gallery Blue Door
833 Park Ave, Baltimore

The figure remains central, but withheld.
Meaning gathers quietly.

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