Wosene Worke Kosrof

His recognizable "signature" emerges by distorting, elongating, dissecting, and reassembling the symbols as images.

Jazz improvisations underlie his compositions, animating them with rhythmic movements and emboldening his masterful use of color.

[3] Wosene's paintings, in his words, "...create a visible, interacting surface - like an icon available to everyone; it allows them to have dialogue, to take them into memory..." Wosene explained that he does not pre-sketch paintings, "my process is inchoate and exploratory: the interplay of accident and intention, of mastery and uncertainty, of curiosity and discovery.

A major aspect of Wosene’s works is that they present us with a challenge to look into the art, feel its effect, and to watch what happens.

He paints from a place between mastery and uncertainty – and so the viewer too can approach his work to discover meanings that emerge through interaction Wosene reflected on the effects of learning to see by viewing art in context of relationship between the risks of adolescence and the risks of art and stated: "Seeing differently, we then begin questioning our habits of mind and feel a new urge to create visions and images of what can be.

For over two decades, Ethiopian-born artist Wosene Worke Kosrof has experimented with the aesthetic potential of language, using written Amharic as the major compositional element in his bold colored and textured works. [ 1 ]