An Evening with Artists, Featuring Patricia Edwine-Poku and BUCK!

The arts serve as a time machine, transporting us across different eras and perspectives. Ewia, a duo exhibition featuring artists Patricia Edwine Poku and Rodney “BUCK!” Herring, embodies this concept by investigating the convergence of past, present, and future, deeply influenced by West African history and contemporary literature. Ewia, meaning “sun” in English, symbolizes the universal connection of humanity under a shared sky.

Join us for an evening of creative exploration during an artist talk featuring Poku and BUCK! at the Anacostia Arts Center. The conversation will be moderated by Jess Randolph, Associate Creative Director of the Anacostia Arts Center.

Patricia Edwine Poku

Patricia Edwine-Poku, (b. 1992, Kumasi, Ghana), is an abstract artist currently based in Washington, DC. Her work creates a visual language of elements and the spirit realm to understand time and space. She has an interest in the connections that lie between elements, energy, humans, ancestry, and spirituality, based on her Ghanaian roots.

Edwine-Poku takes advantage of the performative nature of paint and collected natural materials, and their ability to be molded to create new forms to imitate elements in nature. She uses this visual language as a means of documenting verbal storytelling with the use of color and mark-making to illustrate these intangible ideas about the world and the cosmos, extended from our narrow view.

Edwine-Poku’s work has been exhibited in galleries and art institutions in Ghana, the United Kingdom, Italy and the United States and included in various private collections in Ghana. She is currently a recipient of the Babs Van Swearingen Memorial Award at the American University where she is pursuing her MFA Studio Art degree.

BUCK!

A Baltimore native, Rodney “BUCK!” Herring, attended Hampton University where he majored in art, and found his voice reading some of the great writers of the 20th century. After graduation, BUCK! found himself up the parkway from Baltimore, creating art on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. BUCK! Describes his work as “an ongoing conversation with myself in regards to my many artistic influences gathered from daily life and also from seeking information. The viewer gets bits of everything in my work including influences from impressionists, cartoonists, painters, graphic artists and more. My art is often interrupted by my logical thoughts which are then reinterpreted back into a visual representation of its chaos.” A collage of words and impactful imagery, his work is in a category of its own.

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