This Thursday, Feb 13
African for the First Time | Papay Solomon
Artist Talk, 4 – 5PM, Center for Creative Photography, rm 108
Reception, 5 – 6:30PM, Joseph Gross Gallery
Papay Solomon is a Phoenix based artists and Liberian war refugee working to reconcile his African heritage within his adopted home country of America. His paintings employ the vocabulary of western art to portray fellow members of the African diaspora. Solomon completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Arizona State University as outstanding undergraduate in 2018. That same year, he was awarded the Friends of Contemporary Art Artists’ Grants Award from the Phoenix Art Museum and the Erni Cabat Award from the Tucson Museum of Art.