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April Issue 2007
Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, Features Works by Wosene Worke Kosrof
Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, will present an exhibition of works by renowned international artist Wosene Worke Kosrof in the Guilford College Art Gallery in Hege Library, on view through May 4, 2007.
In The New York Times, Holland Cotter wrote "Is Wosene an African artist? An American artist? Modern? Postmodern? He is all of these." Wosene Worke Kosrof (or simply Wosene, as he is known professionally) was born in Ethiopia in 1950, came to the United States in 1978, and now resides in California. Academically trained as an artist both in his native Ethiopia as well as in the US (receiving an MFA from Howard University), Wosene was one of the first contemporary African artists to gain international critical acclaim. More than just an African or American artist, however, Wosene combines multiple cultures in his distinctive works. His works, according to Cotter, "[blend] written letters of Ethiopia with Western-style gestural painting. The results are abstract, but richly coded, with fractured texts, personal symbols, and a palette of jewel-like colors - reds, yellows and greens - associated with Ethiopian iconic painting."
Wosene's art has been shown in the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the United Nations, the Hoshigaoka Gallery in Japan, and the National Exhibition Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, among many others in a career that has spanned close to four decades. He has been an artist in residence at the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy, as well as at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. According to Allyson Purpura, Consulting Curator of The University of Michigan Museum of Art, "Wosene is a master translator of human experience."
For more information check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the gallery at 336/316-2438 or visit (www.guilford.edu/artgallery).
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