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"Quiet Reverence" by Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja
Mixed Acrylics, Inks, Mediums, Textiles, Collage & Aquarelle
12x12
$555
Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja is a BIPOC multidisciplinary artist, curator, and cultural advocate whose vibrant, spiritually resonant works explore ancestry, womanhood, ecology, and social justice. Her dynamic practice includes painting, enamel on metal, sculpture, printmaking, and wearable art, all united by a bold, intuitive use of color and texture.
Her journey began with an honorable mention for Wings of Love at the National Orange Show. Since then, she has exhibited widely in national juried exhibitions, earned numerous awards, and contributed to major public arts initiatives, including Riverside’s RISE Mosaic Mural and the San Bernardino County Cultural Plan.
Adeola’s work has reached audiences worldwide through its inclusion in several popular television series. Her paintings have appeared in Grey's Anatomy (ABC), Insecure (HBO), Black-ish (ABC), The Neighborhood (CBS), Time of Your Life (FOX), The Others (NBC), Bel-Air (Peacock), and others—affirming the universal appeal of her joyful, emotionally layered visual language.
Her art is held in public and private collections, including the Riverside Art Museum, Chaffey Community Museum of Art, National Orange Show, Loma Linda Ronald McDonald House, Universal Studios, Redlands United Church of Christ, Château Orquevaux in France, and the Enamel Arts Foundation. Her collectors include Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison.
Beyond the studio, Adeola has a longstanding commitment to curatorial and community work. She co-curated IE TakeOver at The Los Angeles Makery (2025) and led Tomorrow’s Masters, a youth exhibition that ran from 1992 to 1998. She also curated Selections from the Permanent Collection at the Riverside Art Museum (2012) and played a key role in the Inland Empire’s cultural development.
Her most recent series—Sacred Imprints, Mystic Series, and the Menopause Art Project—speak to healing through heritage, science, and ritual. She is a recipient of residencies and grants from Château d’Orquevaux (France), Dorland Art Colony, the California Arts Council Creative Corps, and the Center for Cultural Innovation. In 2025, her work will join the Lunar Codex as part of a time capsule mission to the moon.
With an eye toward the past and a vision for the future, Adeola continues to explore art as a space for remembrance, celebration, and transformation.
Artist Statement
I am a Southern California artist with a multidisciplinary approach to my work. I create non-objective and figurative abstractions using a mix of acrylic, printmaking, digital collages, and other media on various substrates.
Color is a key element in creating an atmospheric feel in my paintings. I use layers of warm, cool colors to establish a visual language that changes as the light and angles shift. Visual imagery of people, animals, and nature emerges through shadow, silhouettes, and intersecting lines.
I infuse positive manifestation words and phrases on the blank substrates, which become encapsulated energy and build up layers intuitively to find a balance between the conscious and unconscious. In my art, dots are a recurrent motif that I employ to investigate the connection between mankind in an abstract way.
My paintings evoke femininity, spirituality, and nature, exploring the relationship between nature and humanity through abstract art influenced by my Yoruba culture
Mixed Acrylics, Inks, Mediums, Textiles, Collage & Aquarelle
12x12
$555
Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja is a BIPOC multidisciplinary artist, curator, and cultural advocate whose vibrant, spiritually resonant works explore ancestry, womanhood, ecology, and social justice. Her dynamic practice includes painting, enamel on metal, sculpture, printmaking, and wearable art, all united by a bold, intuitive use of color and texture.
Her journey began with an honorable mention for Wings of Love at the National Orange Show. Since then, she has exhibited widely in national juried exhibitions, earned numerous awards, and contributed to major public arts initiatives, including Riverside’s RISE Mosaic Mural and the San Bernardino County Cultural Plan.
Adeola’s work has reached audiences worldwide through its inclusion in several popular television series. Her paintings have appeared in Grey's Anatomy (ABC), Insecure (HBO), Black-ish (ABC), The Neighborhood (CBS), Time of Your Life (FOX), The Others (NBC), Bel-Air (Peacock), and others—affirming the universal appeal of her joyful, emotionally layered visual language.
Her art is held in public and private collections, including the Riverside Art Museum, Chaffey Community Museum of Art, National Orange Show, Loma Linda Ronald McDonald House, Universal Studios, Redlands United Church of Christ, Château Orquevaux in France, and the Enamel Arts Foundation. Her collectors include Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison.
Beyond the studio, Adeola has a longstanding commitment to curatorial and community work. She co-curated IE TakeOver at The Los Angeles Makery (2025) and led Tomorrow’s Masters, a youth exhibition that ran from 1992 to 1998. She also curated Selections from the Permanent Collection at the Riverside Art Museum (2012) and played a key role in the Inland Empire’s cultural development.
Her most recent series—Sacred Imprints, Mystic Series, and the Menopause Art Project—speak to healing through heritage, science, and ritual. She is a recipient of residencies and grants from Château d’Orquevaux (France), Dorland Art Colony, the California Arts Council Creative Corps, and the Center for Cultural Innovation. In 2025, her work will join the Lunar Codex as part of a time capsule mission to the moon.
With an eye toward the past and a vision for the future, Adeola continues to explore art as a space for remembrance, celebration, and transformation.
Artist Statement
I am a Southern California artist with a multidisciplinary approach to my work. I create non-objective and figurative abstractions using a mix of acrylic, printmaking, digital collages, and other media on various substrates.
Color is a key element in creating an atmospheric feel in my paintings. I use layers of warm, cool colors to establish a visual language that changes as the light and angles shift. Visual imagery of people, animals, and nature emerges through shadow, silhouettes, and intersecting lines.
I infuse positive manifestation words and phrases on the blank substrates, which become encapsulated energy and build up layers intuitively to find a balance between the conscious and unconscious. In my art, dots are a recurrent motif that I employ to investigate the connection between mankind in an abstract way.
My paintings evoke femininity, spirituality, and nature, exploring the relationship between nature and humanity through abstract art influenced by my Yoruba culture