Representative work by Patrick Quarm
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Artist

Patrick Quarm

b. 1988, Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana · Based in Takoradi, Ghana

  • MFA, Texas Tech University (2018)
  • BFA, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (2014)
  • Painting
  • African Wax Print Fabric
  • Collage

Patrick Quarm paints layered figurative portraits on woven African wax-print fabric, carving and tearing multi-layered cutouts to reveal historical colonial engravings beneath. His complex surfaces explore cultural hybridity and postcolonial West African identity.

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