Japheth Asiedu-Kwarteng: Burden of Proof

From the Art Museum of Southeast Texas:

“Burden of Proof will highlight the mixed media art of Japheth Asiedu-Kwarteng, an Edinburg, TX based artist who serves on the faculty of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Art and Design.

Asiedu-Kwarteng, who primarily works in ceramics, is largely inspired by traditional Ghanaian symbolism. His research and creative practice are drawn from Kente cloth, a hand woven fabric from Ghana, and its history in materiality (expanding its symbolism) and explore the communicative potential of fabric and fibers to discuss movement, transition, and navigation of tangible and intangible foreign spaces.

For this exhibition, he intends to exhibit an artwork including over 140 elements that investigate by his personal use of the USCIS website (US Citizenship and Immigration Services), which he uses as an immigrant himself, as well as for his family. It will also include mixed media ceramic sculptures that incorporate Kente design.

Asiedu-Kwarteng is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics, Artaxis and National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). He has exhibited his works extensively in Ghana and the United States including in the 2022 and 2021 NCECA Annual and Multicultural Fellowship exhibitions.

A free gallery guide handout with an essay by Kendra Paitz, director and chief curator at University Galleries of Illinois State University, will be available.