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Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe
Joseph Cubo
- Estimate
- $30,000 - 50,000
Lot Details
oil on canvas
signed and dated "Kwame Kye Feb 2020" on the reverse
84 x 54 in. (213.4 x 137.2 cm)
Painted in 2020.
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Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe
GhanianOtis Kwame Kye Quaicoe paints empowering images of black men and women set against lush monochromatic backgrounds. His portraits of friends and family are celebrations of blackness and reclamations of lost and forgotten cultural dignity. He uses color, the primary instrument of self-expression in his native Ghana, as a language of transformation to create a dynamic of cultural, political, and personal redemption. Quaicoe was born in Accra, Ghana, where he was first introduced to painting by the expressive, highly stylized posters painted by local artists to advertise upcoming films, and attended the Ghanatta College of Art and Design for Fine Art in Accra, where he studied painting. He lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
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