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December 22, 2021
Grace Ebert
Ghanaian artist Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe has a proclivity for distinction. In his hanging portraits of Black individuals, he gravitates towards shades of grey to render the pores and skin tone of single figures or small teams, who sport patterned clothes, hats of textured materials, and customarily vibrant fashions which can be in direct opposition to their bodily options. The intense, daring shade palette is the artist’s most popular methodology for translating emotional states, interior lives, and idiosyncrasies, one he emulates with the richly textured impasto backdrops surrounding his topics.
Quaicoe is presently a resident at Rubell Museum, the place he’s created a trio of monumental works that think about the trope of the American cowboy. “Rainyanni,” “Moses Adomah” and “David Theodore” stand 12 toes excessive and are paying homage to the bandana-wearing figures the artist painted earlier this yr. Equally subversive is “The American Dreamer” (proven under), which facilities on a youthful determine—the topic’s pores and skin is roofed in a swirling sample of traces, a recurring trait in a few of the artist’s most up-to-date items—who wears a hat printed with stars and strips.
Just a few of Quaicoe’s portraits are on view by way of January 27, 2022, at Inexperienced Household Artwork Basis in Dallas and at LACMA by way of April 17, 2022, and you’ll discover extra of his oil-based works on Artsy and Instagram.
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