“I needed to create something I could take with me wherever I went,” Toyin Ojih Odutola says of her practice. What better than stories? Ojih Odutola compares fiction to drawing, and believes the pen is a “writing tool first.” Using ink, pastel, and charcoal, she gives her narratives form—scenes ripe with meaning and reflecting her Nigerian-American heritage. In this exhibition the artist presents a series of tableaux vivant. The show’s title, “Ilé Oriaku,” which means “House of Abundance,” is a reference to her grandmother’s name. —Elena Clavarino