George Afedzi Hughes: Moments in Time: Tangents

Skoto Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition of the work of George Afedzi Hughes, an internationally acclaimed painter and performance artist who’s visually arresting paintings highlight parallels between the violence of colonialism and contemporary global encounters. Through an accessible prism of sports iconography, Hughes’ work interrogates postcolonial racial reconciliation and identity; and the tension between personal and historical narratives.

“Moments in Time: Tangents” will include twenty-three works that mine imagery from sports and pop culture to signal the residual effects of colonialism and the contradictions of personal and a commercially palpable identity.

“I am interested in the subtle relationships between humanity, commercialism and colonialism,” says Hughes. “I use sports imagery as a microcosm of society.”

Hughes is Associate Professor of Painting at the State University at Buffalo and has taught at the University of Toledo, The University of Oklahoma and Bowling State University. Born in Ghana, Hughes earned a B.A. in Art and an M.A. in Art Education at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Bowling Green State University. His paintings, performances and installations have been exhibited internationally in Canada, China, Denmark, United Arab Emirate, England, France, Germany, Ghana, Northern Ireland, Nigeria, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Uruguay, Wales and across the United States.