AKWASI GYAMBIBI

Medium: Pyrography, collage, paint on wood

Dimensions: 48"X48"

About the art:

Featured in COFFEERIGHT CREATOR GALLERY's second show: I'M NY 'Portraits'.

Akwasi's emotional connection with his birth country of Ghana, combined with his life in New York City allows him to express the beauty of the people around him from a unique perspective. He chooses to do this via a unique medium.

Akwasi says of his burnt wood technique: "All that is natural I express through burning the surface and everything around it appears as texture and color."

The work stems from a moment that he entered a rooftop party in New York and saw this anonymous woman simultaneously enjoying her watermelon and her life.

When we discovered "Feeling Good" we stood silent in front of it for 10 minutes. We are very excited to share this art with you and hope you enjoy it as much as us.

About the artist:

Akwasi Gyambibi is my name. I was born and nurtured in a city called Tema, popularly known as the harbor city in Ghana.

I found the necessary happiness of childhood pleasure and entertainment through drawing and painting. This was the only activity that draws joy from my innermost self and this was where I began to realize my dream by building on my passion and releasing my potentials to have impact in the world.

Life inspires what I depict. The wood surface is where I express my deepest emotions, thought and experiences.

Leaving indelible impressions, Akwasi Gyambibi is a practitioner of the unorthodox technique of Pyrography that involves the burning and penetrating of plywood, cardboard, fabric, and other materials of choice by using a hand held torch, resulting in textured, smokey, sometimes 3-dimensional images.

He often enhances his pyrographic technique with a dremel that cuts, grinds and carves into the board, embellishing wood with collage, acrylic, graphite, tapestry, wallpaper and metal. Akwasi's compositions and movements appear highlighted and softened, as the smoke reveals shifting planes of the body and face, amplifying the subject matter of tender, everyday interactions and moments.

Condition:

Excellent.