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Amoako Boafo

Amoako Boafo (Born 1984) is active/lives in Austria, Ghana.  Amoako Boafo is known for Expressive, large-scale black-face portrait painting, emotional expression.

Amoako Boafo is a painter, born in Accra, Ghana, based in Vienna, Austria.

Boafo’s portrait paintings are enticing in their lucidity, accentuating the figures in each work, who are regularly isolated on single color backgrounds, their gaze the focal point of each work.  The brushstrokes are thick and gestural, the contours of the body’s almost soften into abstraction. The most well known of his series, the Black Diaspora portraits, serve as a means of celebration of his identity and Blackness.

Boafo emphasizes, “The primary idea of my practice is representation, documenting, celebrating and showing new ways to approach blackness.” Much of his work is inspired by his upbringing, commenting on how males are raised to be aggressive and masculine, which he challenges in his works. Although the artists underlying messages are quite intense, there is a certain softness to the works as a whole, the poses are serene and the skin luminous.

Boafo studies at the Academy   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3364 characters.]  Artist bio

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Hands Up , 2018

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Yellow Blanket , 2018

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Orange Shirt , 2019

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Baba Diop , 2019

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Justine Mendy , 2018

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Tonica and Adia , 2019

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