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.’”