February 15 – March 22 2024

Opening Reception with comments from the artist: February 15 4:00-5:30pm

Curfman Gallery, Lory Student Center

Vincent Frimpong is a contemporary ceramic artist born in Accra, Ghana, West
Africa. He holds a B.A. in Industrial Arts (Ceramics option) from Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. He was a teaching
assistant in the Ceramic Section of the Department of Industrial Art, KNUST. His
works are shown in multiple exhibitions, including Our Art, Our Time, Our
Region in Walton Art Center Fayetteville, AR, Figure Grounded in Birmingham, 
AL, and recently had a solo show; I grew up with little at the pH Gallery in West
Fork, AR. Most recently he was awarded The Consortium for Intercollegiate
Research in the Ceramic Arts (C.I.R.C.A) and Midsouth Dianne Komminsk
sculpture winner, and the 2023 The Medium (CACHE)- Creative Exchange Fund
(CXF) MARs Award Recipient. He received the 2022 Zenobia award from
Watershed in Maine, the 2022 Windgate University Fellowship Awardee for
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Maxwell-Hanrahan Haystack Recipient for
the 2023 Fellowship, John Glick Penland School of Craft Scholarship 2023, and the Creative Exchange fund Grant from Art Ventures Gallery. Vincent is a third-
year, MFA candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Arkansas School of Art.

“This exhibition is an ongoing series that takes you through the windy road I have
traveled during my past three years in the United States. As you move throughout
the space, each work evokes the lessons and strength I used to make art about the
new culture and lived experiences as I grow here. I am developing myself through
these works. With City Boys, it calls to the warnings and tribulations of the path.
Danger and It Hurts You Until It Defends You make the questions of ‘do I belong
here?’ and ‘how can I show them the resilience of the African child/man?’ As you
move through the journey alongside me, I intend for my works and its installation
to have you question what you see and think about life as an immigrant. As a man from Ghana, West Africa, this is just a part of my story. As Black Sherif says in his
song Run, ‘Mr man follow your journey.’”