#Painting: Hands Up (2018)
#Artist: #AmoakoBoafo (b. 1984; #🇬🇭)
#ArtistMovement/Style: #VisualArt
Genre: #Portraiture
Medium: Oil on canvas
187 x 148.6 cm (73 1⁄2 x 58 1⁄2 in)
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Two smiling Black women stand side by side against a pale background, their bodies cropped at the knees so they command the seven-by-nine-foot canvas. On the left, a taller woman with hair pulled back, dressed in a white long-sleeved top and dark skirt cradles a small brown-and-white dog whose bright red collar gives the painting its name. The top of her head grazes the canvas edge as she leans toward her companion, laughing as she looks down at the dog. To the right, her friend, in a vertical striped dress of red, blue, black, and white, turns inward with one hand tucked casually into her pocket, her gentle smile and tilted head meeting the dog’s gaze. Boafo’s characteristic finger-painted, marbled skin contrasts with the smoother brushwork of clothes, dog, and background, heightening the sense of touch, warmth, and closeness shared among all three. Painted in 2021 while artist Amoako Boafo was working in Los Angeles and depicting close friends from his Ghanaian circle, "Red Collar" embodies the ethos of the exhibition "Soul of Black Folks" with Black subjects centered, relaxed, and gloriously themselves. The red collar quietly shifts focus from fashion spectacle to care, loyalty, and the everyday intimacies that structure Black life. Boafo reserves direct finger painting for skin and hair, marking Black bodies as sites of connection rather than consumption, while the monumental scale of the canvas elevates a simple moment of shared joy to the level of history painting. Traveling from gallery to museum, including its presentation in "Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks" and in the Hornik Collection exhibition "Some Dogs Go to Dallas," the work anchors Boafo’s larger project of documenting Black friendship, glamour, and self-possession across continents, insisting that these relationships belong at the heart of contemporary art’s global narrative.
"Red Collar" by Amoako Boafo (Ghanaian) - Oil on canvas / 2021 - Denver Art Museum (Colorado) #WomenInArt #DogArt #AmoakoBoafo #DenverArtMuseum #SeattleArtMuseum #GreenFamilyArtFoundation #HornikCollection #BlackArt #BlackWomen #GhanaianArt #ContemporaryArt #art #artText #artwork #BlueskyArt #Boafo
𝗔𝗺𝗼𝗮𝗸𝗼 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝗳𝗼 – 𝘂𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 🖤🎨🌍
Artiste queer ghanéen, il sublime les corps noirs avec fierté, vulnérabilité et dignité. ✊🏿 Fondateur de WE DEY à Vienne, espace pour artistes racisés & LGBTQIA+ 🌈✍🏿 #AmoakoBoafo #ArtQueer #Afrique #LGBTQIplus #Visibilité #WEDey #CorpsNoir
Flyer der Ausstellung PROPER LOVE von AMOAKO BOAFO Im unteren Belvedere vom 25.10.2024 - 12.01.2025
Hey Leute! Wenn ihr in #Wien seid oder wohnt und nichts mit eurer Zeit anzufangen wisst, hier ein Tipp:
Ausstellung #PROPERLOVE von #AMOAKOBOAFO
Im unteren #Belvedere leider nur noch bis zum 12.01.2025
Ich finde die Bilder ganz famos!
(Quelle: Flyer der Österreichischen Galerie Bevedere)
Concluding 2024, I recommend more #art, less #AI. The work of #AmoakoBoafo, exhibited at the @belvederemuseum Museum Vienna is beyond💥. It’s as unique as contextual, it shifted my view & mind. exhibition is still on, or get the catalogue. belvedere.at/en/amoako-boafo
Ausstellungsansicht mit mehreren farbintensiven Porträts von Amoako Boafo. Die Gemälde zeigen expressive Darstellungen von Personen vor leuchtenden Hintergründen.
Porträt eines Mannes, der direkt aus dem Bild blickt. Er trägt einen leuchtend türkisen Blazer, der einen starken Kontrast zum grünen Hintergrund bildet. Über und hinter ihm schweben kleine gelbe Blumen, die dem Bild eine verspielte Note verleihen.
#AmoakoBoafo, one of the most important voices of a new generation of Black artists. The exhibition at the #LowerBelvedere features key paintings portraying friends, acquaintances, and public figures who convey contemporary notions of Black self-empowerment and self-conception.
#AmoakoBoafo mit Proper Love bis 12. Jänner im Unteres Belvedere. Ein Muss!
www.belvedere.at/amoako-boafo
Im Moment gibt es eine sehr coole Ausstellung im Unteren Belvedere.
Amoako Boafo
Proper Love
Das Belvedere zeigt die erste institutionelle Ausstellung zum künstlerischen Schaffen des ghanaischen Malers Amoako Boafo (* 1984 in Accra) in Europa.
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A painting rendered in Acrylic paints.
“SYMPHONY OF RESOLVE”
Acrylic on canvas
21 x 26 inches
2023
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