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TAFA |
TAFA is an award-winning artist whose paintings have been exhibited
and collected in Europe, Japan, Canada, South America, Africa and the
US. His abstract oil paintings are depicted
by strong Social, Political, Religious statements in audacious brilliant
colors. His abstract Sports and
Music paintings portray both activities with the energy one would
only
expect from an actual performance.
“My paintings are my drum
song, my dance of the soul,”
“I am like
the divine drummer,” says TAFA, “trying to materialize the transient, the spiritual, to
search the soul of our hopes, fears and visions.”
This search
sometimes births art that confronts and challenges or art that
elevates and inspires. “Creating art is a cosmological journey, it is
mirrored in the experience of the collective consciousness of all who
search for the truth.
Delving into my being is not paramount, what is pivotal is
reaching into the internal spaces that have created eternity of
memory, our primordial memories.”
Numerous
galleries, educational and cultural institutions in the US, Japan,
Europe and Africa have collected and exhibited
TAFA’s paintings.
His works are in many permanent public and private
collections including the Superior Court, Washington, D.C, Barclays
Bank, Sparrow Hospital, Michigan, Shell Co, Ghana’s National Museum,
Carver Federal Bank and former New York City Mayor, David N. Dinkins,
Bryant Gumbel and the late Johnny Cochran.
TAFA obtained a BFA
degree from the College of Art, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science
and Technology in Ghana. He lives in Harlem, NY.
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1999 – 2009
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| Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
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MoCADA , Brooklyn, NY |
Atmosphere Gallery, SoHo, NY |
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African American Museum, Dallas Texas |
Civil Rights Museum, Detroit, Memphis, TN
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Parliament Building, Hessen, Holland |
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Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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National Black Fine Art Show, Chicago, 1996-06
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Ayaso Int. Fine Art, Washington D.C. |
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1992/95 |
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Afro-American Museum, Boston |
Parish Gallery, Washington, D.C. |
Bronx River Gallery, Bronx, NY |
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African-American Institute, NYC |
Howard University, Washington, D.C. |
L’ecrivain Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
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Pepsico Head Office, Rye, NY |
Lamu Gallery, NYC
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1997-99 |
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N. Carolina Central Univ., Art Museum, NC
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Boniface Gallery, NYC |
Jazz Museum, SoHo, New York
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| Frontier Art, The Hague, The Netherlands |
Yeshiva University, NYC |
Thelma Harris Galleries, Oakland, CA |
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Fort Frederik Museum, St Croix
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Novotel, Accra, Ghana |
Shell Head Office, Accra, Ghana |
| L’Agent Art International, Montreal Canada |
North Carolina A & T, Greensboro, NC |
New World Art Center, SoHo, NYC |
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Hearne Gallery, Little Rock, AK |
Mehu Gallery, New York, NY
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Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY |
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African-American Institute, NYC |
Bronx River Gallery, Bronx, NY |
Howard University, Washington, DC |
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1997/1996
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Liazan Gallery, NYC
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Contemp, Afri-Art Gallery, London, UK
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Crossroads Theater, New Brunswick, NJ |
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L’ecrivain Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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17 West 121 Gallery,
NYC
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Ayaso Gallery, Washington, DC |
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Quiskeya Gallery, NYC
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Selected Collections |
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Shell
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Carver Federal Bank, NYC |
Mayor David Dinkins, NYC |
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National Museum, Ghana |
Johnny Cochran |
Standard Bank |
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Barclays Bank
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Bryant Gumbel
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Awards
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Sport Artist of the Year 2010 |
Circle of Art |
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Swiss Painting
Competition, 1st Prize |
Paa Kwame, Ghana |
Pepsico Head Office, Rye, NY
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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New York Newsday |
Whittier Daily News |
West Africa Magazine |
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New York Daily News |
Contemporary Painter’s News |
Amsterdam News |
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WCBSTV |
Hyscience |
Caribbean Sun |
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Arts Journa |
The Ticker |
Denver Post |
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Herald Press |
New Africa Magazine |
Centre Daily |
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The Buffalo news |
Toronto Star |
The American Daily |
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