Statement

My work reviews the relationship between colonial history and contemporary global phenomenon. Through humor and metaphor, I explore the residual effects of colonialism. I am fascinated by spectacle, history, memory, and the observable. I borrow and reconstitute imagery from global popular culture, the urban-sphere, technology and nature.

BIOGRAPHY

Originally from Ghana, I studied painting at The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, College of Art, Kumasi, Ghana, where I earned a BA in Art: Painting and Drawing (1989) and an MA in Art Education (1991).  I later received an MFA in Painting and Drawing (2001) from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, U.S.A.
I moved to England in 1991 and finally settled in the United States in 1994 after a major solo exhibition of my works created in London were exhibited in Accra, Ghana at The Artists Alliance Gallery. I am currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Art, SUNY at Buffalo since 2006.