I Bring Home with Me

<p>Roberts Projects is pleased to present I Bring Home with Me, an exhibition of new work by Amoako Boafo and the artist's third solo show with the gallery. Expanding on Boafo's exploration and celebration of Blackness and its diverse subjectivities, the exhibition features a group of new paintings that are integrated within an architectural re-creation of the artist's studio in Accra, Ghana, built to scale inside the gallery. Conceived by Boafo in collaboration with architect and designer Glenn DeRoche of DeRoche Projects, the installation reflects the creative energy of his cultural background, highlighting how his community personally influences his practice and holds formative emotional significance for the artist. The title of the exhibition, I Bring Home with Me, refers to Boafo's process of documenting images, sounds, people, stories and events that shape his sense of place. Boafo's portraits of Black subjects—ranging from friends and acquaintances to public figures and fictional characters—are exquisitely rendered in his graphic compositional approach, which incorporates patterns and paper transfers as well as a distinctive gestural mark-making that evokes 20th-century modernism from a contemporary point of view.</p>