Augustine biography artists

Augustine was born in New Hampshire in 1976 to a family of "musical movers and shakers" who encouraged him to explore his artistic impulses.
Augustine has carried his fascination with the unique and unusual into a wide range of multi-media artwork, including printmaking in oriental and art deco.
Augustine Kofie develops his mastery of scale and movement in works full of lines and structured shapes.

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Augustine Kofie

Born and based in Los Angeles and active in the Southern California graffiti scene since the early nineties, BIPOC multimedia artist Augustine Kofie (b. 1973) works in painting, collage and mural interventions. Kofie’s fine art practice draws together the languages of graffiti’s deconstructive lettering, mechanical drafting, modern architecture, and plunderphonics, creating a unique take on constructivist abstraction, or as the artists refers to as ‘Vintage Futurism.’ Kofie has been featured in Juxtapoz, Graffiti Art Magazine, The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti, Le Petit Voyeur and VNA Magazine 26. His work is in both national and international private collections and has appeared on numerous book and album covers.

Recent exhibitions include State of Mind, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York City (2021); ROTATIONSHIPS. Heron Arts, San Francisco (2022); 1970s / GRAFFITI / TODAY, Phillips Gallery, NYC (2022); UNDERCURRENTS, Chenus Longhi Gallery, Paris (2023)

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Augustine Kofie is undeniably one of the most prominent representatives of Graffuturism.
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES - AUGUSTINE

Typically New York and typically Italian, is the way Joseph Augustine Grassia, one of the founders of Phoenix Art Group, describes growing up in New Jersey, thirty miles outside of New York in the 1950's and 60's. What made his experience uniquely different was the unmistakable presence of his Aunt Mickey - his own personal Auntie Mame who introduced him to the wonders of the nearby metropolis and offered a glimpse of theater, galleries and all the eccentricities and avante garde the city had to offer. Augustine remembers it as love at first experience, and has never looked backed.

Augustine's education at Fairleigh Dickenson University was interrupted by the war in Viet Nam. He's interested in a wide range of places - from New York City on one hand, to the great outdoors with dramatic vistas, cliffs, oceans and forests. Says Augustine, One of the hardest things to learn in life is to live in the present moment.

Augustine has carried his fascination with the unique and unusual into a wide range of multi-media artwork, including printmaking in orient

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Violetter, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
160 x 150 cm
€ 9,600.00
Grand Gesture, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 200 cm
€ 9,000.00
Sigh of Bliss, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 160 cm
€ 8,600.00
Humrush, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
130 x 100 cm
€ 6,600.00
Quiet Storm, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
130 x 100 cm
€ 6,600.00
Engagement, 2023
Acrylic on paper
70 x 50 cm
Framed under museum anti-UV glass size 80 x 60 cm
€ 2,400.00
Entanglemoment , 2023
Acrylic on paper
70 x 50 cm
Framed under museum anti-UV glass size 80 x 60 cm
€ 2,400.00
Magnetisma, 2023
Acrylic on paper
70 x 50 cm
Framed under museum anti-UV glass size 80 x 60 cm
€ 2,400.00
Dicey, 2023
Mixed media on wooden panel
(Found paper, acrylic polymer, ballpoint pen on a cradled birch panel;
sealed in archival matte varnish.; finished in satin varnish)
40 x 40 cm
42 x 42 cm framed
€ 1,900.00
Hun beto, 2023
Mixed media on wooden panel
(Found paper, acrylic polymer, ballpoint pen on a cradled birch panel;
sealed in archival matte varnish.; finished in satin varnish)
40 x 40 cm
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