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Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe
Rancher
- Estimate
- $1,000 - 2,000•
S. 35 3/8 x 27 5/8 in. (89.9 x 70.2 cm)
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“I grew up watching a lot of westerns. We were all about the action movies and Hollywood. I grew up loving that and fantasizing about all this cowboy culture, their boots, how they speak… Watching all of those movies, I never saw a main character that looked like me or shared my skin tone. So even as a teenager, I was wondering if somebody who looks like me could be the lead character.”
—Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe
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.