Engy Ghattas 

Ibrahima Ndoye, who goes by “Ibou,”

Born in West Africa's most progressive capital city, Dakar, Senegal, glass-painting artist Ibrahima Ndoye has combined modernism and traditionalism to create a style unique to himself. Ibrahima, commonly known as "Ibou," grew up as the oldest child of a family of four boys in the suburbs of Dakar. Ibou's mother made her living as a dressmaker while his grandmother worked as a tie-dye artist. Regularly surrounded by colorful African textiles and fabrics, it is not surprising that Ibou says he "socialized with art and cohabited with colors' ' from a very young age. Now Ibou resides in Jersey City, New Jersey, and regularly exhibits his art both locally and internationally in addition to holding glass painting workshops at libraries and schools. Ibou intends to continue promoting and expanding his artistic vision through exhibition, education and cultural exchange.

 He number 5has been an artist all his life. Born in Senegal to a family who expressed their creativity in tie-dying, embroidery, welding and dressmaking, Ndoye learned from an early age that nearly any material can lend itself to creative hands.

Ibou Ndoye is a craftsman who communicates through his works of art and blending it in with the perspectives he sees. He removed a stage from the US and returned to his nation of origin to see everything in an alternate position. His work was titled Neighbors Near and Far as a result of how he saw the distinction in culture and how the lady and men were diverse with their garments, gems and how the lady had hallowed time with other lady and men weren't permitted to go along with them in their internal circles. At the point when I saw that it truly spoke to an early lunch in a kind of state where ladies all join to make some great memories, tattle and without the organization of men. The subject in each painting that Ibou has indicated is demonstrating the way of life, the foundation of African Americans, the various methods he utilizes and various textures he utilizes in each painting. He additionally prefers to draw numerous appearances on the grounds that the countenances are what recount to an anecdote about the individual and that is something extraordinary in light of the fact that it is him recounting to an account of a little youngster or lady. The craftsmanship he does talk about him since his social foundation is behind it and it investigates the historical backdrop of the individuals. In one of his craft pieces, there was a table brimming with African ladies and when seeing this it addressed me as nearly as the last dinner in the good book since seeing every one of these ladies nearly similarly situated this was one account that passed on me and Ibou himself brushed upon why he chose to do this specific piece and it was something that he himself saw the lady do back in their nation of origin. Something else that flabbergasts me with his work is that he includes surface, shading, textures and that got my eyes in light of the fact that over yonder likely is a universe of lively shading and that astounds me.