Crixtover Edwin

Crixtover Edwin (b. 1996) is a Nigerian multidisciplinary visual artist specializing in figurative painting with a concentration on portraiture and visual emotions. His paintings are focused on depicting a celebratory narrative and representation of people of African descent.

In allowing the intricacies of his subject's appearance, poses, and symbolic identity to be the sole focus, he emphasizes drawing attention to the distinctive celebration of people of color by addressing their image, status, and relevance in contemporary culture. Crixtover art usually constitutes a similar approach in terms of each subject depiction with attention to detail, body language, and visual emotionalism employing a signature Basquiat technique to the background and features of his subjects' persona and cultural symbols in a bid to represent black identity in contemporary art.

The distinct difference however is always black representation as people of color are placed at the forefront of his art for a purpose, specifically to denote power, representation, and celebration of their identity.

Crixtover believes portraits hold the potential to give power and relevance to those who are painted in a certain way and aims to use his art to create a bridge of beautiful works of art that reflects representation on black people who never got represented before, blurring the boundaries between traditional and contemporary modes of representation while using people of color as his subjects from ordinary everyday people to well-known individuals yet still showing their strength, royalty, beauty, and unapologetic aura highlighting what it feels like to be young, black and celebrated, a topic he believes needs to be exhibited enough throughout galleries and exhibitions.