Amoako Boafo highly detailed portraits address the

highly detailed portraits address the image and status of young men of color

ISBN: 9780520246621

Each artist’s response to contemporary social issues -- identity

Kehinde Wiley’s work incorporates a range of artistic vernaculars directly from art historical references to a looser

ranging from the solid to the ephemeral

Amoako Boafo highly detailed portraits address theForeword by Camille Weiner. Text by Osei Bonsu, Rachel Cargle, Mutombo Da Poet, Aja Monet. Interview by Paul Schimmel. 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