Augustine Kofie Art
American, b. 1973
Inspired by the basic building blocks of the geometric world, Augustine Kofie has formed a retro-futuristic aesthetic which transplants these shapes and angles into a soulful, organic, yet highly mathematical form of abstraction. Merging his traditional graffiti education, his inclination toward “certain colour forms and certain application techniques”, with his deep love of illustration and preliminary design, his fondness for “drafts, architectural renderings and pre-production concepts”, Kofie plays with form and line, with balance and depth, twisting and manipulating his murals, his illustrations, his compositions, into ever new and dramatic arrangements.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Kofie’s instinct to draw was cultivated through the creativity of his mother. Whilst she was studying fine arts at UCLA, Kofie was using the supplies that lay around his house to start experimenting on his own, he starting to excel in drawing by the time he had reached middle school. Whilst his art education never went further than high school, Kofie’s real training was garnered through his time spent painting graffiti, he coming to prominence in the Los Angeles graffiti scene by the mid 1990s. Giving him an extensive understanding of both “colour and layering, points of perspective and arrangement”, graffiti not only gave Kofie his technical foundation however, it also provided the underpinning for his love of construction and form: Through drafting and sketching wildstyle pieces, “stretching the letters out and rebuilding them, giving them varied points of perspective and basically building shapes out”, Kofie began to understand the architectural basis of writing, an understanding pushing him to focus on the linear rather than alphabetic aspects of his work. Having also felt that he had made an honest contribution to the LA graffiti scene, Kofie’s evolutionary drive meant he soon began to “distort and manipulate” his work, attempting to “re-contribute and redistribute something new”.
Developing his aesthetic into an almost pure abstraction then, dominated by the simple squares, triangles and circles that make up our structural universe, Kofie’s relentless desire to experiment and explore his visual surroundings meant he was forced to engage in a constant test of his own mindset and preconceived ideas, each work an attempt to find a geometrical solution to a graphical problem. Putting his entire soul into his work, into his craft, Kofie has thus formed an intensely layered, earthy, dynamic style of contemporary muralism, an illustrative practice which digs deep and looks forward, a practice, like the Roman God Janus, which surveys the future and the past at very the same time.
-Rafael Schacter , honorary research fellow at the Department of Anthropology at University College, London, 2013.(Biography provided by David Bloch Gallery)
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Artist: Augustine Kofie
KO DISCONNECTED FROM THE GRID
By Augustine Kofie
Located in Marrakech, MA
Mixed media on canvas
Dark natural wood exterior frame
Framed dimensions: 156 x 110 cm
Signed front and back
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Augustine Kofie Art
Materials
Canvas
SHIFTING OFF OF THE ESTABLISHED PATTERN
By Augustine Kofie
Located in Marrakech, MA
Mixed media on canvas
Dark natural wood exterior frame
Framed dimensions: 169 x 131 cm
Signed front and back
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Augustine Kofie Art
Materials
Canvas
ROTATION OF A SCI-FI TEMPORALITY
By Augustine Kofie
Located in Marrakech, MA
Mixed media on canvas
Dark natural wood exterior frame
Framed dimensions: 125 x 167 cm
Signed front and back
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Augustine Kofie Art
Materials
Canvas
THE ROTATIONSHIP OF CENTRAL HEATING
By Augustine Kofie
Located in Marrakech, MA
Mixed media on canvas
Dark natural wood exterior frame
Framed dimensions: 169 x 131 cm
Signed front and back
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Augustine Kofie Art
Materials
Canvas
GOLDEN SHIFT GRID
By Augustine Kofie
Located in Marrakech, MA
Mixed media on canvas
Dark natural wood exterior frame
Framed dimensions: 169 x 131 cm
Signed front and back
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Augustine Kofie Art
Materials
Canvas
A STAND ALONE POWER SYSTEM
By Augustine Kofie
Located in Marrakech, MA
Mixed media on canvas
Dark natural wood exterior frame
Framed dimensions: 169 x 131 cm
Signed front and back
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Augustine Kofie Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas
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