Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe

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Edition of 35115.0 (H) × 75.5 (W) cmHand-finished

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In his radiant and dramatic portraits, Ghanaian artist Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe shares otherwise untold stories through the canvas. The flowers at the centre of each piece are hand-finished by the artist in acrylic paint.

This edition is part of our first Inner Visions launch, curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah.

Framing

Can be ordered float-mounted in a solid wood frame, painted matte black.

Medium

47 colour screen print with unique hand finished elements in acrylic paint on Coventry Rag 335 gsm.

Certificate of Authenticity

Arrives with a certificate of authenticity.

Finishing

Each print is signed, dated and numbered by the artist.

Release date

March 17, 2021

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Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe1 collaborationOil paintings by Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe depict friends, family and strangers with rich contouring and thick impasto. The works contrast bright oranges, yellows, reds and blues against the dark skin tones of their figures, created with a mix of deep grey, purple and black pigments. Cultural empowerment is at the heart of Quaicoe’s practice, who was born in Ghana but now lives and works in the United States, a move that has profoundly informed his art. Growing up, Quaicoe was inspired by cinema: both the films that he watched and the hand-painted posters that advertised them. References to African and American pop culture feature throughout, as well as fashion and American portrait painters such as Barkley L. Hendricks and Amy Sherald. Each painting proffers its own nuanced narrative, “the idea is to be the channel between the unheard and the rest of the world.”

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