"This was actually the first piece that I did for the show [Turner's first NY Solo "Breathing Water to Air"]. I was thinking, ‘In what way is this piece gonna set the vibe?' It's named after a Javon Johnson poem about being a lighthouse. He talks about not appreciating somebody who was his lighthouse and how that affected his relationship with that person. I realized that I don't ever say ‘thank you' to the material. I try to use it and I try to be a part of it, but I don't actually say ‘thank you' to it. In this one, the arms beam out like a lighthouse. People always ask me, ‘Why do you take out the eyes in your work?' There are multiple answers to that, but I ask, ‘When you look at my work, what do you think about? Are you thinking about the person in this image?' They often say no, and it's because the eyes are gone. When you can't connect to the person in that way, then you have to go with the emotions they're depicting or even the color. The water makes you connect to the figure's body, as well as yours. It's a body of water connected to a body of water through abstraction."
- Khari Turner
(Interview Magazine "From the Senegalese Coast to the Hudson River: the Liquid Confidence of Khari Turner" by Juliana Ukiomogbe, July 16, 2021. Published in conjunction with Khari Turner's first solo show in New York entitled "Breathing Water to Air", July 10 - August 7, 2021 at the Ross-Sutton Gallery.)
“I, Kamala Harris” , 2021 / 2024, by Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne
To celebrate and support VP Kamala Harris historic 2024 run for President of the United States, we are releasing a limited edition (50) archival pigment print of artist Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne's original 2021 painting, “I, Kamala Harris”.
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Archival inks 100% acid free white cotton rag, 308gsm, textured matte, museum quality paper produced by by Hahnemühle.
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Raphael “Afutumix” Adjetey Adjei Mayne (born 1983, Accra, Ghana), studied painting (BA) at Ghanatta College of Art & Design in Accra, Ghana, just like his peers Amoako Boafo and Otis kwame kye Quiacoe.
HIs work is a visceral assemblage of diverse facets of Ghanaian and African sociocultural experiences evoking political, emotional & practically psychoanalytical connections and cut-aways weaving private & public space realities unbound by time.
The signed & stamped limited edition (50) is a print of Raphael’s original work “I, Kamala Harris”, 2021. 68.89 x 59.05in / 175 x 150cm, painted the day after her swearing in as the first female and also first Black Vice President.
These works are part of an ongoing body of work called FACELESS. It both is and it is not about the individual per say, whomever he portrays is a representation of Black people as a collective, thus inviting the Black viewer to easier imagine themselves being an Amanda Gorman (Raphael’s portrait of Amanda is in the permanent collection of Harvard University, HUTCHINS CENTER for AFRICAN & AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH) or in this case Kamala Harris, or the girl in the pretty dress, etc., but also for the non-Black viewer to see our Blackness in general, rather than getting stuck focusing on the individual in the image the featureless face makes you think more about what the image signifies.
To many all they see is a person of color, they don’t see the individual. But also to us we know what we see. The imagery is symbolic, it’s about us as a whole. It’s a Black person that has been chosen to recite, it’s a Black person that’s being sworn in as VP, a Black person running for President.
"I leave the viewer to imagine who that person is or could be, and also to celebrate blackness in a very intensive series or way by painting in browns and black.
Detailing the face reduces my message I am sending out there that is my blackness."
- Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne
For all image credits kindly mention
Image © and credit: courtesy the artist & Destinee Ross-Sutton 2021/2024
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"For there is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to Be it." - Amanda Gorman
Own a piece of history! In honor of Black History Month and Amanda Gorman's now historic 2021 inaugural poem "The Hill We Climb", at 22, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, we are excited to present a limited edition, hand signed and numbered print of Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne’s much celebrated 2021 portrait of Amanda Gorman, now in the permanent collection of Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. Harvard University also being Gorman's Alma Mater.
The edition consists of 25 uniquely hand embellished prints and 50 none embellished prints.
Rising Ghanaian artist, Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne, created the work inspired by Gorman’s inaugural poem delivered on January 20th, 2021. A graduate of the Ghanatta College of Art and Design, Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne’s work is a visceral assemblage of diverse facets of Ghanaian and African sociocultural experiences evoking political, emotional and practically psychoanalytical connections and cut-aways weaving private and public space realities unbound by time.
Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne was born 1983 in Accra-Ghana.
He studied at the Ghanatta College of Art and Design in Accra-Ghana alongside his peers Amoako Boafo, Otis Kwame Key Quaicoe, Annan Affotey and Isshaq Ismail.
Mayne is an artist whose mediums span from the stretched linen of a canvas to the cotton of African fabrics.
The artist builds on his craftsmanship using a self-taught technique; working with the sewing machine and over a decade of experience to create an utterly unique style - to bring a mixed matched patchwork of African materials to the canvas. Using Adinkra symbols from West Africa, Mayne combines the traditional influences of his homeland Ghana with the modern aesthetic.
Since 2013, Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne lives and works in Germany.
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JANUARY 28, 2021: ARTNET
A Painting of Amanda Gorman, the Young Poet Who Performed at Joe Biden’s Inauguration, Is Now Part of Harvard’s Permanent Collection
JAN 29 2021: Surface
A Painting of Amanda Gorman Enters Harvard’s Hutchins Center
JAN 28, 2021: Art Market Monitor
Portrait of Inauguration Poet Amanda Gorman Gifted to Harvard
JAN 29, 2021: The Boston Globe
"This Work Must Be In An Institution." Amanda Gorman Portrait Gifted To Harvard
Feb 1 2021: The Daily Mail Portrait of Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, 22, is donated to Harvard University as 'a celebration of hope
January 20, 2021 ArtDaily.com
Harvard University acquires portrait of Amanda Gorman for the permanent collection
