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Array ( [id] => 3227 [run_id] => 00675 [date_published] => 2015-06-13 12:01:18 [print_name] => Circulate System Shift [print_size] => 22 x 30 Inches [print_medium] => 6-Color Serigraph on 290gsm Coventry Rag Fine Art Paper [print_edition] => 100 [print_edition_label] => Edition Size [print_shipping_cost] => 15.00 [print_shipping_intl] => 30.00 [print_shipping_date] => 2015-07-03 12:00:00 [artist_id] => 360 [blog_link] => blog.1xrun.com/?p=14727 [print_price] => 350.00 [print_status] => 0 [print_type] => 0 [print_parent_id] => 0 [print_description] => "Circulate System Shift is in tune with my Circulatory System themed works, but a bit more focused on the 'circle' foundation. The inclusion of the 'rotation' contrasts well against my linear interpretations.

For these screen prints I painted the separations on site a few weeks back in January at the Seriopress's new print space in El Sereno, a faction of north east Los Angeles and one of the oldest communities in LA. This is my third screen print that I've created hand painted separations. I'm learning each time I create the next print. I always want them to be their own beast, still part of my creative viewpoint and characteristics, but they are always a unique approach and offering. This go around I had a chance to go in harder on the opacities in the inks and create more fun, unexpected colors in the layers." - Augustine Kofie

This RUN is signed, numbered and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from Augustine Kofie and 1xRUN.

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Born and raised in Los Angeles, Kofie’s instinct to draw was cultivated through the creativity of his mother. Whilst she was studying fine arts at UCLA, Kofie was using the supplies that lay around his house to start experimenting on his own, he starting to excel in drawing by the time he had reached middle school. Whilst his art education never went further than high school, Kofie’s real training was garnered through his time spent painting graffiti, he coming to prominence in the Los Angeles graffiti scene by the mid 1990s. Giving him an extensive understanding of both “colour and layering, points of perspective and arrangement”, graffiti not only gave Kofie his technical foundation however, it also provided the underpinning for his love of construction and form: Through drafting and sketching wildstyle pieces, “stretching the letters out and rebuilding them, giving them varied points of perspective and basically building shapes out”, Kofie began to understand the architectural basis of writing, an understanding pushing him to focus on the linear rather than alphabetic aspects of his work. Having also felt that he had made an honest contribution to the LA graffiti scene, Kofie’s evolutionary drive meant he soon began to “distort and manipulate” his work, attempting to “re-contribute and redistribute something new”.

Developing his aesthetic into an almost pure abstraction then, dominated by the simple squares, triangles and circles that make up our structural universe, Kofie’s relentless desire to experiment and explore his visual surroundings meant he was forced to engage in a constant test of his own mindset and preconceived ideas, each work an attempt to find a geometrical solution to a graphical problem. Putting his entire soul into his work, into his craft, Kofie has thus formed an intensely layered, earthy, dynamic style of contemporary muralism, an illustrative practice which digs deep and looks forward, a practice, like the Roman God Janus, which surveys the future and the past at very the same time." - Rafael Schacter , honorary research fellow at the Department of Anthropology at University College, London, 2013. [artist_link] => keepdrafting.com/ [artist_sortname] => kofie [artist_safe_url] => augustine-kofie [state] => soldout ) 1