Toyin Ojih Odutola Is Drawing Up Worlds

Toyin Ojih Odutola Is Drawing Up Worlds

On the eve of opening “Ilé Oriaku,” her magisterial new exhibition of large-scale drawings — some more than six feet high, executed with equal bravura and precision in charcoal, pastel, graphite and colored pencil — Toyin Ojih Odutola was touring the show, in Jack Shainman Gallery’s downtown space, calling in spirits. “A point in Nigerian culture that I learned is that there’s always ancestors with you,” said Ojih Odutola, who was born in Ilé-If…