Research Catalog

Title

Amoako Boafo / with Osei Bonsu, Rachel Cargle, Mutombo Da Poet, Aja Monet, Paul Schimmel.

Author

Boafo, Amoako

Publication

• Los Angeles, CA : Roberts Projects, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Weiner, Camille Mary
• Bonsu, Osei (Curator)
• Monet, Aja, 1987-
• Schimmel, Paul
• Mutombo Da Poet
• Cargle, Rachel E. (Rachel Elizabeth)

Description

208 pages : color illustrations; 34 cm

Summary

"The first monograph on the sinuous, exhilaratingly colorful and pattern-filled portraiture of Amoako Boafo. Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo has built a practice synthesizing the ways that art both reflects and perpetuates the power of representation. Amoako Boafo is the first monograph to comprehensively examine the artist's career to date. Heavily illustrated and featuring original contributions by Osei Bonsu, Rachel Cargle, Mutombo Da Poet and Aja Monet, the book also presents an insightful and expansive conversation with the artist by Paul Schimmel. Exclusively portraying individuals from the diaspora and beyond, Boafo invites a reflection on Black subjectivity, diversity and complexity. His portraits, notable for their bold colors and patterns, celebrate his subjects as a means to challenge portrayals that objectify and dehumanize Blackness. As Boafo has stated, "the primary idea of my practice is representation, documenting, celebrating and showing new ways to approach Blackness.""--

Uniform Title

Paintings. Selections

Alternative Title

Paintings.

Subject

• Boafo, Amoako > Criticism and interpretation
• Boafo, Amoako > Exhibitions
• Artists, Black > Ghana > Exhibitions
• Painters, Black > Ghana > Exhibitions
• Portrait painters > Ghana > Biography
• Black people in art > Exhibitions
• Black people in art
• Painters
• Criticism and interpretation
• Artists, Black
• Painters, Black
• Portrait painters
• Ghana

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Interviews.

Note

• Published ahead of exhibition "Singular Duality : Me can make we" held at Roberts Project in 2021.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Camille Weiner -- The mirror's edge / Osei Bonsu -- Shadow work / Aja Monet -- Painting is a safe refuge : an interview with Amoako Boafo / Paul Schimmel -- Plates -- A painter's passage / Mutombo Da Poet -- Singular duality : me can make we / Rachel Cargle -- Artist biography.

Call Number

Sc+ G 23-33

ISBN

• 9781957920993
• 1957920998

LCCN

2022911682

OCLC

1317309483

Author

Boafo, Amoako, artist.

Title

Amoako Boafo / with Osei Bonsu, Rachel Cargle, Mutombo Da Poet, Aja Monet, Paul Schimmel.

Publisher

Los Angeles, CA : Roberts Projects, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Weiner, Camille Mary, writer of foreword.

Bonsu, Osei (Curator), author.

Monet, Aja, 1987- author.

Schimmel, Paul, interviewer.

Mutombo Da Poet, author.

Cargle, Rachel E. (Rachel Elizabeth), author.

Research Call Number

Sc+ G 23-33