Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks

  Edited by Larry Ossei-Mensah. A collection of breathtaking portraits by notable Ghanaian painter and visual artist Amoako Boafo. Published to accompany Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo’s premier museum solo exhibition, copresented by the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks is a timely exploration into the varying strategies that Boafo employs within his practice to capture the essence of the Black figure. Boafo creates paintings that center Black subjectivity, Black joy, and the Black gaze. Anchored by calculated brushwork combined with skillfully executed finger-painted strokes, his mark-making generates a rich visual dichotomy that yields both inward and outward-looking explorations of Boafo's subjects and the act of painting Black figures themselves.     As much as Boafo's works are about the viewer, these beautifully constructed paintings are buoys. They aid him and many people of color in