Layomi Akinrinade:
Anatomy of a Black Hole

September 1, 2025 - November 1, 2025

image: “Faulty Eyes”, spray paint and pastel on carved wood, 36” x 48”, 2024

@ The Collins Pub / Pioneer Square

Anatomy of a Black Hole

These paintings come from the void—
a space where pressure pressed in,
and paintings become survival.

Sometimes forms revealed themselves,
sometimes I wrestled them from nothing.

They circle loneliness and mania,
shadows of futures,
paranoia seeded by capitalisem—
but never collapse into one story.

Fragments, companions,
gestures of persistence,
where fracture and becoming
coexist.

Public Viewing at The Collins Pub:
Every day, 11am - close (~9pm)
526 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98104

Pioneer Square First Thursday Art Walk:
Thursday March 6th and April 3, 2025 from 5-8pm

Layomi Akinrinade

Layomi Akinrinade is a Nigerian visual artist based in Seattle, WA. Working through instinctive abstraction, his paintings wrestle with perception, memory, and the desire for resolution. His photographic work captures cultural resilience, urban solitude, and the ways African youth—on the continent and in the diaspora—remix media and redefine global culture. Across both mediums, Layomi’s practice explores the shifting nature of identity, heritage, and futurity in a fragmented world.

CoCA ShowWalls is a show opportunity for CoCA Artist in partnership with local businesses.