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Patrick Quarm – Paradox: Surfaces of Self

May 8, 2020 Tags: , , , , , , , NNamdiContemporary
Patrick Quarm. Paradox: Surfaces of Self

By Heike Dempster

Original Post Patrick Quarm. Paradox: Surfaces of Self

Patrick Quarm’s exhibition “Paradox: Surfaces of Self” at N’Namdi Contemporary Art’s new Little Haiti space presents nine new works by the artist focusing on cultural hybridity, identity construction and its fluidity, and the interconnectedness of past, present and future.

Born in Sekondi, Ghana in 1988, Quarm currently lives and practices in the United States. He graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana with a BFA in Painting and a Masters of Fine Art degree at Texas Tech University; his work has been showcased at K.N.U.S.T Museum Kumasi, Ghana; Peckham International Art Fair (PIAF), London, England; and the Caviel Museum of African American History, Lubbock, Texas, amongst others. He has also served as a teaching assistant and Adjunct Professor for painting and drawing courses in both Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Texas Tech University.

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Stephen Arboite Dreamscapes: The Metaphore Has Shifted to Healing

May 7, 2020 Tags: , , , , , , , , NNamdiContemporary
Stephen Arboite, Untitled, 2020, coffee, charcoal, mixed media collage on paper All images are courtesy of N'Namdi Contemporary, Miami.

By Heike Dempster

Oringal post Art Districts Magazine – Florida

With “Dreamscapes: The Metaphor Has Shifted to Healing,” artist Stephen Arboite presents a series of soulful and spiritual works focusing on a metamorphosic journey, inviting viewers along on an emotional and introspective path to self-discovery and healing.

The paintings are representative of the past 10 years of Arboite’s artistic practice and are as much rooted in the present. They are continuations of investigations he started to pursue while a student, when he first discovered coffee as a medium. Initially chosen based on a lack of resources, the coffee soon led the artist on a powerful journey to explore his Haitian heritage and various discourses on the Caribbean diaspora.

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EDWARD CLARK: Master of Abstract Expressionism

April 20, 2013 Tags: , , , , , , , , NNamdiContemporary

By Jenna Bond-Louden

This summer, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is presenting works from their collection in the retrospective Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960. A saturating stroll through the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building on Museum Mile in New York City, the presentation reflects works selected by former Guggenheim director James Johnson Sweeney as highlighted works and artists of the post-Word War II abstract expressionist movement.

The show illuminates the names of greats including Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, Georges Mathieu, Mark Rothko, and Kenzo Okada. The breadth of artists and the complexity of works require a half-day to view in full, and perhaps two visits to fully consider.

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