Jump into Lola’s world for a moment. Dance in the wet paint. You’ll feel at ease – it’s colorful, brave, and body positive.
Lola Ayisha Ogbara is a Chicago-raised, St Louis-livin’ artist who is shifting body talk to a positive one (not easy). She employs her talent—including illustration, paint, sculpture—to spark conversations on women’s bodies, especially surrounding gender, body size, and color. Lola’s message is really simple: embrace every shape and curve of yourself. Treat others the same way.
Even before social media and glossy fashion mags, big bodies and bodies of color have been excluded from the realm of ‘acceptable beauty’. What the past has erased Lola paints back with twice as much fire.
“The fact that there aren’t any real positive imagery surrounding these bodies are unacceptable,” she tells us. “It’s my job to create imagery that fights against this whilst at the same time making women feel more comfortable in their own skin.”
Through a wildly loving and bright exploration, Lola is reclaiming that space – both for for others, and for herself: “The more my body of work grows, the more comfortable I feel in my own skin.”
Follow her on Instagram for daily love and take a look at her website to see complete collections of ‘Body Positivism’, and sculpture-based project ‘A Revolution on its Own’.
