Gallery 1957
Gallery 1957 presents leading artists working across West Africa and the diaspora. Launched by Marwan Zakhem on the day of Ghana’s independence celebrations in 2016, the gallery has since expanded across three spaces in Accra and one in London, with a programme of exhibitions, talks, publications and off-site projects dedicated to spearheading international exchanges between contemporary West African art practices and the rest of the world. In 2021, the gallery launched the Yaa Asantewaa Art Prize, the first-ever dedicated art prize for women artists living and working in Africa, with the aim of strengthening its commitment to and promotion of emerging and established artists across Ghana and the diaspora.
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ARTISTS
JOSHUA OHENEBA-TAKYI
JUWON ADEREMI
LAUREN PEARCE
JUWON ADEREMI
LAUREN PEARCE
JOSHUA OHENEBA-TAKYI
Joshua Oheneba-Takyi - Trip to Jerusalem, 2021, Acrylic on Canvas, 200 x 300 cm
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Born in Kumasi in 1997, Joshua Oheneba Takyi gravitated to drawing and painting from a very young age. He has sketched since he could remember, “Drawing became a coping mechanism for me,” he recalls. He would sketch cartoons and illustrations for story books, and while he was on a science-focused track at school, he always continued to make art on the side.
After attending Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology where he studied building technology, Oheneba-Takyi dedicated himself entirely to his art, painting on his own and with friends. He learned the practice of mixing paints and painting on canvas on his own and through his contemporaries. In 2018, he started Paintspree with a friend and colleague. The non-profit organisation turns any space into an art-friendly environment where participants can relax and paint for fun as a way to invest in their creative selves.
Joshua Oheneba-Takyi lives and works in Accra, Ghana.
After attending Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology where he studied building technology, Oheneba-Takyi dedicated himself entirely to his art, painting on his own and with friends. He learned the practice of mixing paints and painting on canvas on his own and through his contemporaries. In 2018, he started Paintspree with a friend and colleague. The non-profit organisation turns any space into an art-friendly environment where participants can relax and paint for fun as a way to invest in their creative selves.
Joshua Oheneba-Takyi lives and works in Accra, Ghana.
JUWON ADEREMI
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Juwon Aderemi's practice is centered around surrealistic figures and abstract realism. He works with various media to portray conversations that deal with culture and beliefs, as we live through the borrowed time of the world. Juwon creates his art based on his imaginations and observations of how things or personalities of different epochs merge together to make a perfect sense in our current time. He works with charcoal and oil on canvas, creating striking figures and fabrics to give life to his beliefs and culture.
Juwon Aderemi has had his work exhibited at various shows such as, BLACK VOICE/BLACK MICROCOSM show at CFhill, Sweden, COLLECTIVE REFLECTION, Gallery 1957, Ghana, 1-54 ArtFair, New York. This is his first solo exhibition with Gallery 1957.
Juwon Aderemi has had his work exhibited at various shows such as, BLACK VOICE/BLACK MICROCOSM show at CFhill, Sweden, COLLECTIVE REFLECTION, Gallery 1957, Ghana, 1-54 ArtFair, New York. This is his first solo exhibition with Gallery 1957.
LAUREN PEARCE
Withholding in an Unsafe Space, 2022, Oil, Acrylic and Latex Paint on Canvas, 200 x 150 cm
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Lauren Pearce (b. 1988) is a multimedia artist born in Cleveland, Ohio. Her output ranges from complex freehand drawings of varying sizes to outsized outdoor murals executed in vibrant colours. Also adept at portraiture, her versatility reflects in the varied sizes these are produced in, from smaller intimate paintings to canvases measuring nine by nine feet. Ever cognizant of how her African-American identity influences her practice, the artist has consciously tapped into her more expressive self, employing a wide range of materials, colours, and surface media in the production of her art. The free reign has resulted in a fuller expression of her views about her Jamaican heritage, wider racial politics, feminist ideology and motherhood. Lauren Pearce is a full-time studio artist and recently had solo exhibitions in Cleveland. She also had a very successful outing as part of Truth Be Me, a show celebrating black female creativity in New York.
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