Nairobi, July 16 -- From the cohort of emerging artists last showcased at One Off Art Contemporary Gallery last year, it is Yusuf Mirumbe that the deities of art seem to have been kindest to.

From his journey at Alfajiri Street Kids Art where he learnt and taught painting with street children, there has hardly been a dim to his shine in as far as the progress and evolution of his craft is concerned.

Now, a body of his works is being showcased at the PhotoGallery on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis in a solo show dubbed Mothers of Mathare which explores his traditional style of figure painting that plays form and posture while maintaining a classical renaissance look on his female subjects

Closer home, at the Nobody Owns Me Gallery in Kibe...