Exhibition Archive
2022
Current Exhibition:
The Art of ALMIGHTY GOD
A Genuine Twofer! —!! An homage to my dear pal, the inimitable Doran H. Ross, (RIP), and to see my show and take in the Artworks of Almighty God (Ghanaian–B. 1950- aka Kwame Akoto) – —another exhibition of Almighty’s work, opened the-weekend-before-last, at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at UCLA, with a thunderous clap*— **
*Heaven sent, no doubt! (Haha)
**Both Doran and the Almighty show are honored!
On Reflections
Merrick Adams and Imogen Allen
Curated by India Irving and Valeria Gemelli
Viva Sotel!
Both new and old works, from the not-seen-together-this-century Vigango of the "Arts of Kenya" exhibition at the Smithsonian, in 1979, to old and new works by Almighty God, aka Kwame Akoto, of Kumasi, Ghana, (in preparation for the show at UCLA's Fowler Museum, opening on January 16, 2022, celebrating Almighty, and my dear pal, Doran Ross- (RIP!) — to an homage (RIP!) to Master T – Bob Thompson – Robert Farris Thompson of Yale and Beyond! — “Migration”, (spoken of frequently, and conceptually by pal Chris Burden (RIP!)), and last but certainly not least, Dave Hickey (RIP!) – – hell I should just call this show - Veneration! —Pal Veneration! — Ancestor Veneration! - - -
- Vigango from the "Arts of Kenya" exhibition at the Smithsonian, in 1979 (not seen this century!)
- Migration -- RIP Robert Farris Thompson, a collection of zoomorphic, bovine-like, root-form neckrests from Kenya (outliers from the "Arts of Kenya", Smithsonian, 1979)
- Artwork of Almighty God, aka Kwame Akoto, of Kumasi, Ghana, celebrating Almighty and my dear pal, Doran Ross (RIP), new and old paintings on wood and canvas
(as a get-ready for the exhibition at the Fowler Museum at UCLA How Do You See This World?’: The Art of Almighty God, January 16, 2022 – May 8, 2022 -- see shout out from Hyperallergic below)
- and from Finally.... works by Barry Campion, Natalie Arnoldi, Edith Baumann, Laura Josephson, Debbie Korbel, Nellie King Solomon, Melanie Newcombe, Lindsey Nobel
2021
FINALLY….!: an all women Artists exhibition
Including but not limited to works aplenty by: Lindsey Nobel, Debbie Korbel, Ireland Wisdom, Barry Campion, Samantha Rosenwald, Kelly Berg, Melanie Newcombe, Stephanie Romanov, Erin Hammond, Chloe Wisdom, Nellie King Solomon, Francine Matarazzo, Page Turner- Uribe, Edith Baumann, Laura Josephson, Alison McKenzie, Gwynn Murrill, Amy Turner, Alexis Smith
Featured in Edward Goldman’s Art Matters
2020
PRAISE PORTRAITS from Ghana:
Oil and Acrylic and Cloth and Plywood... Oh my!
Sunday, November 24, 2019 until 2020!
25 years of never-before-exhibited paintings by Ghanaian master painters, including** Almighty God, Isaac Azey, Alex Nkrumah Boateng, Joe Mensah, Samuel Mensah, Franokah, D.A. Jasper, Stoger, Heavy J, Bright Obeng, et. al., and more!
Painted Visual Celebrations about Celebrity
as a Cross-Cultural Phenomenon!
2019
ARTFORUM Critics’ Pick!
Our Collection of Golden Age Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana, Co-Curated by Ernie Wolfe III at Poster House Museum in Chelsea, NYC!
Francine Matarazzo
(Mostly from 2019)
Oil and Acrylic and Cloth... Oh my!
Saturday, September 21, 2019 until Sunday, November 17, 2019
See Sea Sí (1653, 1655, 1657 Sawtelle)
works big and small
by as disparate aesthetically a group
as has ever swum together,
or been seen, juntos!
Peter Alexander
Almighty God (Ghana)
Charles Arnoldi
Natalie Arnoldi
Isaac Azey (Ghana)
Billy Al Bengston
Kelly Berg
Joseph Bertiers (Kenya)
Doug Britt
Barry Campion
Steve Galloway
Alejandro Gehry
D.A. Jasper (Ghana)
James Mathers
Andy Moses
The Miracle Najib (Ghana)
Theophilus Nii Anum Sowah (Ghana)
Rick Oginz
Stoger (Ghana)
Robert Williams
Suzanne WIlliams
Ireland Wisdom
Norton Wisdom
... and more
Lita Albuquerque
Larry Bell
Robert Graham
Kane Kwei (Ghana)
Francine Matarazzo
Ed Moses
Gwynn Murrill
Robert Walker
2018
Africa L.A. Olé!
and Protea en color!
Photographs by Gil Garcetti
Barry Campion
Terrestrial Interpretations
at 1657 Sawtelle
September 30, 2018
Ed Moses and the FAVs*!
Straight Outta Ghana and Venice, CA !
Never before exhibited paintings by Eddie M,
and new to our shores, FAVs*
by Theophilus Nii Anum Sowah, Benezate, (No Way!), and Paa Joe!
2017
Norton Wisdom, untitled, 1987, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches
James Mathers, Untitled, 2011, oil on wood, 120 x 48 inches
Tribal Art of Kenya, Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles, April 4, (1978)
Vigango Commemorative Sculpture of the Mijikenda of Kenya, Gregg Juarez Galleries, Los Angeles, March 15 c. 1978.
The Vigango of Kenya Art of the Gohu Society, Balene Inc, Houston, January 17, c. 1979
Arts of Kenya from the collection of Ernie Wolfe III, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, January 1981
Opening of Turkana, A Primitive Art Gallery, West LA, May 5, 1981
The Arts of Kenya, Gregg Juarez Galleries, Palm Desert, April 1983
Ernie Wolfe III Collection of African Art, Gregg Juarez Galleries, April 1993
Vigango, The Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR, September 1983
Vigango, WIlliams College Museum of Art,, Williamstown, MA, January 1984
Holiday Season Send-off Celebration with Jim Ganzer’s wonderments and some unusual toys from Kenya, Turkana, WLA, December 19, 1984
Archaic Splendor arts from Indonesia and its outer islands, Turkana, WLA, October 1985
Holiday season send-off, Friday the 13th Amongst the Vigango, with Ed Moses and Ernie Wolfe III, Turkana, WLA, December 13, 1985
Friday the 13th Amongst the Beadwork an Ethnographia of the ZULU and NDEBELE, Turkana, WLA, June 13, 1986
African Christmas at Scratch, Santa Monica, December 1986
Adapted Materials/Diverse Environments: from zoomorphic and organic to large scale and geometric: the ingenious blend of form and function found in the Traditional Arts of Ritual and Utility from Kenya, Fine Arts Building, Downtown LA, June 1988
Bertiers Garden, EWG WLA, January 1989
New Art from Leningrad, EWG WLA, March 1989
Viva La Carnival!, EWG WLA, October 1989
Joseph Bertiers, EWG WLA, April, 1990
The Canon of Verticality: Large scale architectural sculpture form sub-Saharan West Africa, Vigango and Ryu Okabayaski, April 13, 1990
Kane Kwei: Fantasy Coffins from Ghana, Turkana & EWG WLA, September 13, 1991
Bary Campion: Excentric Hedges, Turkana WLA, September 1991
Nancy Kay: New Constructions, Turkana WLA, November 1991
Fantasy Coffins from Ghana by Kane Kwei, EWG WLA, December 1991
The Canon of Verticality II with Laddie John Dill, EWG WLA, December 13, 1991
Nick Agid: Quotations Objectified in Bronze, Turkana WLA, December 13, 1991
Mathew Maxwell: “To the Vanishing Point” Paintings of Los Angeles, EWG WLA, December 1991
The Canon of Horizontality!, EWG WLA, March 13, 1992
Holy Hefalump!, EWG WLA, September 1992
Joni Mabe and her World famous traveling Panoramic Encyclopedia of Everything Elvis, EWG WLA,, January 1993
Kane Kwei and Joseph Bertiers, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, CA, February 1993
Joni Mabe: The Second Coming and Rendillie: The Barons of Bovinity, Turkana and EWG WLA, April 1993
Beds, Pots, Signs and Doors!, EWG WLA, June 1993
Joseph Bertiers: From Kenya With Love, EWG WLA, September 1993
Have Yourself a Merry Little Slingshot!, EWG WLA, December 1993
Russell David Wolfe birth announcement, January 1994
Fantastic After-Life Vehicles from Ghana!, PKE, Culver City, February 1994
Ernie Wolfe Gallery Expands to Bergamot Station!, EWG @ Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, September 1994
Anecdotal Glass Box Sculptures by Benezate, EWG at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, September 1994
American Foreign Policy: Barber Boards from Ghana, EWG at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, December 1994
Fantastic After-Life Vehicles from Ghana III, EWG at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, April 1995
Joseph Bertiers: From O.J. to Kobe - The Year in Review 1995, EWG at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, March 1996
William Norton: Writer/Ranger/Renegade/Raconteur and Great Gran Dad, EWG at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, August 1996
Happy New Year (Isaac Azey photo), 1996
Dino Danger: After-Life Vehicles by Theophilus Nii Anum Sowah, EWG at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, June 1997
Cool Stools, EWG at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, June 1997
Sporting Waves, West African Hair Boards, Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA, October 1997
Heavy Metal: Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metal Sculptures from Two Continents: Traditional African Currency and Ceremonial Weapons juxtaposed with Contemporary American Metal Sculpture, EWG WLA, December 1997
Bill and Nelson: Praise Portraits and Commentary paintings of Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela by six young African artists, EWG WLA, May 1998
African Hairways… etc., EWG WLA, October 1998
Ellen King’s Zimbabwe Series, EWG WLA, July 1998
Kristin Nelson Tinker: a retrospective of paintings 1964 - 1998, EWG WLA, November 1998
Isaac Azey: From Barber Boards to Praise Portraits and Commentary Paintings, EWG WLA, May 1999
Four from Sub-Saharan Africa: Isaac Azey/Ghana , Benezate/Ghana, Joseph Bertiers/Kenya, Theophilus Nii Anum/Ghana, Muckenthaler Cultural Center Foundation, Fullerton, CA, December 1999
Doug Britt: 2001 An Island Odyssey, EWG WLA, April 2001
Death-Stalking Sleep-Walking Barbarian Ninja Terminators: Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, (voted best exhibition of 2001 by LA Weekly) 200
“Extreme Canvas”, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York, NY September 2001
Extreme Canvas: Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana, EWG WLA, December 2001
Happy New Year, 2002
Seven from Ghana, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT January 2003
Africa Screams, Iwalewa-Haus Afrikazentrum der Universitat Bayreuth, 2004
Traveled to Vienna November 2004 – February 2005
Extreme Canvas, Center for African American Culture, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006
Serpents, Mermaids and Action Heroes, Parkland College Art Gallery, Champaign, IL., 2006
Happy New Year, 2006 from New Zealand
Happy New Year from Park City 2007
Ed Moses Mapiko: Musings from A-Far, EWG WLA, December 2007
Extreme Canvas: Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana, ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood, July 2008
Out of Africa: Obama and McCain, EWG WLA, January 2009
No, This Is It! Michael Jackson, 25 years of Praise Portraits from Sub-Saharan Africa, EWG WLA, December 13, 2009
Juxtaposition From Beyond: James Hayward and Theophilus Nii Anum Sowah, EWG WLA, June 2010
Shatterheads and Gywnn: New Works on Canvas by Ed Moses & Table-top Bronze Comingled Couples by Gwynn Murrill, EWG WLA, October 2011
Michael Jackson in the After-Life: Praise Portraits and Commentary Paintings from Ghana, EWG WLA, December 2012
Wow Women, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles, 2013
The Horror, The Horror!, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, curated by Brandon Boyd, 2013
“Viva Mandela!”, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles, 2013
Local Fish: Perspectives Piscatoreal!, EWG WLA, April 13, 2013
Ed Moses: Cujo, EWG WLA, November 2014
Knock Off – Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA, 2014
Continental Convergence: Hand-Painted Martial Arts Posters from Ghana, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Chinatown, Los Angeles, Summer 2014
Ghana Pop, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles, 2014
Wolfe Pack Seasonal Send-Off Celebration December 21, 2014
Heads UP! Re-Enconjuration of Our Space by Ed Moses, EWG WLA, October 2015
Beauty and the Beast … but Who is Who? Ed Moses and Natalie Arnoldi, EWG WLA, November 2015
Wolfe Pack Annual Private Holiday Howl! EWG WLA, December 2015
Ed Moses: The Beautiful Beast, EWG WLA, May 2016
Kung Fu in Africa: Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana (1985-1999), Hanart TZ, Hong Kong, 2016
Secondary Explosion: New Paintings by Ed Moses, EWG WLA, June 2016
Joseph Bertiers: Then and Now, EWG WLA, November 2016
Lingnan Hung Kuen Across the Century: Kung Fu Narratives in Cinema and Community, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong; Art Lab, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2017 – 2018
Wisdom Mathers: The Druids of Topanga, EWG WLA, April 2017
Ghana Paints Hollywood: Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT curated by Ernie Wolfe III, 2018
Eddie M and the FAVs, EWG WLA, January 2018
Africa L.A. Ole: and Protea en color: Photographs by Gil Garcetti, EWG WLA, September 2018
Barry Campion: Terrestrial Interpretations, EWG3 WLA, September 2018
Macro/Micro: Bronze/Canvas: Gwynn Murrill & Bob Graham, Africatta & Joe Mensah, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles, February 2019
See, Sea, Sí, EWG WLA, 2018 - 2019
Francine Matarazzo, EWG WLA, September 2019
Baptized by Beefcake: The Golden Age of Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana, Poster House, New York, NY co-curated by Ernie Wolfe III and Angelina Lippert, 2019-2020
Praise Portraits from Ghana: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles, 2019-2021
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