#Recollections photo album series#

The Ghanaian textiles and motifs he uses function twofold, referencing both the artist’s West African heritage and literalizing the multidimensional layering of memories and meaning in his work. Amalgamating sources, including familial records and internet archives, Annor creates a vivid metafiction that pulses with life and resonant affection for his subjects, both known and imagined.Ī Characteristic of Annor’s work is the incorporation of fabric segments as well as portions of canvas with fabric transfers. On view through April 22 at the gallery’s Great Jones Street location, this presentation marks the artist’s second solo exhibition with Venus Over Manhattan.Ĭornelius Annor has achieved international critical praise for his narrative figurative scenes and portraits, elements of an oeuvre that captures the transitory moments and ineffable atmosphere of contemporary life in his native Ghana.

#Recollections photo album series#

In the series of fifteen works on view, Annor depicts scenes culled from photo albums, archives, recollections, and imaginings of a group of paintings that radiate kinship and harken to both classical art historical paradigms and the unique aesthetics of modern African portraiture.

Beginning March 16, Venus Over Manhattan will present Ghanaian artist, Cornelius Annor: A Fabric of Time and Family, an exhibition of new paintings by the Accra-based artist whose vibrant canvases offer glimpses of Ghanaian life through figures in states of gathering, leisure, and repose.