Roberts Projects, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2020
Ayla Angelos, “Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe hopes his audience will understand and – most importantly – enjoy his portraiture,” It’s Nice That, July 9, 2020, online (illustrated)
Kate Caruso, “The Power of Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe,” Artillery Magazine, July 15, 2020, online (illustrated)
Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, quoted in Arnesia Young, “Ghanaian Artist Explores Being Black in America Through Colorful Portraits,” My Modern Met, May 10, 2021, online (illustrated)
“The Powerful and Captivating Paintings of Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe,” Myartisreal Magazine, July 9, 2021, online (illustrated)
Antoine J. Girard, “Art as Activism: Otis Quaicoe,” GOAT, n.d., online (illustrated)
Otis 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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