{"product_id":"house-of-shango","title":"House of Shango","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHouse of Shango\u003c\/em\u003e draws its title from Shango, the Yoruba orisha associated with thunder and lightning. Lewis presents a figure emerging from—or held within—a house-like structure, making the architecture function as more than a setting. It becomes a vessel for memory, belief, and cultural transmission.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work is not simply an image of an African religious figure. Its subject is movement across geography and time. Shango traditions traveled from West Africa into the Caribbean, where they took on new forms, and the image asks how those histories continue within Black life in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eInstitutional interpretation\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College holds an impression and has interpreted the work through this transatlantic history. Its collection essay connects the emerging figure to the transformation of Shango traditions across Africa, the Caribbean, and Black America—an especially meaningful context given Lewis’s long career at Scripps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePrint and edition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe estate catalogues this 1992 work as a lithograph from an edition of 60. Its concentrated black field and carved-looking linear passages give the image the visual force of a relief print even as the edition is recorded in the estate catalogue as lithography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eArtwork details\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dr. Samella Lewis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lithograph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 24 × 18 in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePresentation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unframed\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Samella Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46409800220716,"sku":"SL-006","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/7936\/1324\/files\/samella-lewis-house-of-shango-full-composition.jpg?v=1792333524","url":"https:\/\/shop.samellalewis.com\/products\/house-of-shango","provider":"Samella Lewis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}