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Drawing on 40+ years of field collecting in both East and West Africa, the Ernie Wolfe Gallery specializes in juxtaposition exhibitions between the works of modern American, often Southern California based artists, and those of contemporary African painters and sculptors, as well as traditional tribal sculpture and furniture.

Almighty God

 BORN 1950, KUMASI, GHANA

 

EXHIBITONS:

1990: “Africa Explores”, Susan Vogel, The Center for African Art, New York

2000: Plazzo dei Sette, Orvieto, Italy

2003: Seven from Ghana, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT January 2003

2003: Rocca di Umertide, Italy

2003: “Hairstyles and Headdresses, Musee Dapper, Paris, France

2004: Camera dei Deputati, Rome, Italy

2005: Creative Art, Kumasi, Ghana

2006: Solo show, Alliance Française, Accra, Ghana

2006: Castel dell’Ovo, Napoli, Italy

2007:  “Black Like We”, Feldman-Horn Gallery, Harvard-Westlake School, North Hollywood, CA

2007: Studio Brescia, Ospitaletto, Italy 

2009: “Out of Africa: Obama and McCain Praise Portraits and Visual Narratives”, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles; Reviewed in the Los Angeles Times on May 21, 1999, by art critic David Pagel

2009: “No This Is It: Michael Jackson, 25 Years of Praise Portraits”, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles

2012: “Michael Jackson in the After-Life: Praise Portraits and Commentary Paintings from Ghana”, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles 

2013: “Viva Mandela!”, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles

2014: “Ghana Pop”, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles

2019 – 2020, Praise Portraits from Ghana: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles

2021 - 2022: “How Do You See This World?: The Art of Almighty God, Fowler Museum of Cultural, UCLA, Los Angeles

2022: “The Artworks of Almighty God”, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles

PUBLICATIONS:

1996: Contemporary Art of Africa, Andre Magnin 

2003: Hairstyles and Headdresses, Musee Dapper, Paris, France

2009: “The Radiance of the King”, Don Cosentino, African Arts, Volume 42, number 3, 20, Autumn 2009

2012: Extreme Canvas: The Golden Age of Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana, Ernie Wolfe III, Kesho Malaika Press, 2012 

2014: “The Art of Almighty God: in His Own Words”, Doran Henry Ross, African Arts 47, pages 14 – 33

2014: “Artists Portfolio: Almighty God Says Stop Smoking”, Doran H. Ross, African Arts, Autumn 2014, volume Number 3, pages 66 - 75

COLLECTIONS: 

The British Museum, London, UK

National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Instutution, Washington, D.C.

Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario, Canada

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

Pigozzi Collection of Contemporary African Art, 

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL