Patrick Quarm in his studio. Photo by Ebenezer Turkson. Courtesy the artist

In 2015, Patrick Quarm left his native Ghana to pursue a Master’s in Painting and Drawing at Texas Tech University, immersing himself in a culture very different from that which he was used to. The experience would eventually inspire a set of mixed-media and mixed-material paintings now on view in his solo show, “Phantoms in Familiar Terrain,” at albertz benda in New York.

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“I have been interested in the idea of hybrid identity, having a dual identity and living in between or existing in between multiple cultural spaces. And navigating the idea of finding belonging, and figuring out how to maneuver within these spaces,” Quarm told Observer from his home base in Ghana.

He now lives and works in both West Africa and the United States, and several works in the........

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