We have developed a great working relationship, and I think that’s reflected in the work. Here in New York during this residency I have no assistant, but the curator Chantel Akworkor Thompson has spent many hours with me at the studio helping me as we prepare for the show. The space is really large, much bigger than my studio space in Accra, Ghana, where I’m from.ĭo you have studio assistants or other team members working with you? What do they do?īack in Ghana, Grace Adjeley is my assistant and having her around adds a level of ease when I’m working. I’ve grown to love climbing up these stairs daily. The studio is located on the fourth floor of the building, which means I get my daily workout in before painting. I spent about six weeks here in a residency leading up to my first New York solo exhibition at Opera Gallery on the Upper East Side. My studio is in Brooklyn on Bergen Street. Where is it, how did you find it, what kind of space is it? Recently, he invited us into this light-filled Brooklyn space, where we caught a glimpse of the artist’s creative process. In finalizing these works, the artist has used his Brooklyn studio as a place of meditation and focus, but also as a home away from home where he plays his favorite music and dines on Ghanaian dishes like Waakye and Kontomire stew. Typically used for bathing and in funerary traditions, kotsa embeds the idea of ablution into the works themselves. Into these compositions, Tawiah incorporates kotsa, a nylon sponge material popular in Ghana. Painted with Tawiah’s recognizable pulsating intensity, and marked by vivid hues, the paintings are plangent and longing in effect. Figures in individual portraits cast faraway glances, in a mood of melancholy haunted by memory. Lovers are shown softly holding one another. “I Miss Us” presents Tawiah’s latest portraits, a group of tender paintings that explore the emotions that linger long after a relationship ends. Courtesy of the artist and Opera Gallery. We have implemented many parsers from the most popular assets/images formats and we are especially proud of our ABR/TPL parser which not only reads brush stamps and patterns, but also most settings which are converted to Artstudio Pro brush engine values.Adjei Tawiah in his Brooklyn studio, 2023.
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