When
you first view Augustine Kofie’s artwork you immediately are struck
with the skill and intensity of his technique. You can understand his
love of process and structure. With strong interest in architecture,
form and shape of typography, 1960’s iconography, contemporary music and
street culture, Augustine constructs a dialogue in his work that is not
always easily revealed. His collages and assemblages are layers upon
layers of development. His work is as much unintentional mastery as it
is intentional order. The imagery not only leaps out at you, but also
draws you into his conversation.
Growing
up in Los Angeles and very active in the West Los Angeles Graffiti
scene since the mid 1990’s, Kofie’One, as he became to be known, is a
skillful and well respected street artist. After viewing one of his
paintings and assemblages you may begin to recognize his distinct style
in one of his many murals scattered around Los Angeles. Drawing on his
craft of lettering he has developed an abstraction that goes beyond the
traditional 3 dimensions of our known world into a crafted world that
builds on itself. Choices like his color pallet recall a vintage
sensibility. He has the innate ability to combine appreciation of the
past and his vision of a developed future.
Kofie’s
mechanically detailed line-work, organically complex structures and
heavy earth-tone palette develop into a multi-layered, architecturally
inspired world that is a vintage futuristic realm not subject to
gravity.
Source: Keepdrafting
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