OUATTARA WATTS
New York City
Ouattara creates paintings expressing his vision of the world without borders using images, colors, symbols and found objects to create his own artistic vocabulary.
Born in the Ivory Coast of West Africa and later in life living in Paris to study Art where Jean-Michel Basquiat befriended Ouattara and his artistic journey led him to New York.
Visiting with Ouattara was a wonderful experience, following my curiosity I explored each of his paintings as they took me on a wonderful metaphysical journey filled with African culture, philosophy and spiritual story telling.
It’s rarely possible for more than 2 minutes to pass without Ouattara breaking out his contagious laugh with his huge smile and baritone voice.
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