George Afedzi Hughes
Masked Goalkeeper, 2009, oil on canvas, 28x22 inches. SKOTO GALLERY 529 West 20th Street, 5th FLOOR. New York, NY 10011 T: 212-352 8058 E: info@skotogallery.com W: www.skotogallery.com LAYERS Artist | George Afedzi Hughes Recent Paintings February 25th – March 27th, 2010 Skoto Gallery is pleased to present Layers, an exhibition of recent paintings by the Ghanaian-born artist George Afedzi Hughes. This will be his first solo exhibition at the gallery. The reception is Thursday, February 25th, 6-8pm and the artist will be present. "Art may not stop violence, but present philosophic examples of human activity as creative alternatives" is one important credo of George Afedzi Hughes. Connected in several ways with former works, the core topic of his “Layers” series is the ubiquity of violence – in societies, in ecologies and in man as part of nature. Hughes is focusing on the inevitability to escape violence and its related emotional dynamics – and the basic necessity to try it