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Jessica Silverman is pleased to present an online exhibition featuring a new body of work by Detroit-based artist Conrad Egyir. "Starlight" is the artist’s third solo presentation with the gallery and introduces a new series of large-scale portraits reflecting on Blackness, youth, and creativity in his home country of Ghana. At six and four feet in diameter, these celebratory tondos embrace the artist’s Ghanaian roots and his connections to local and global communities.

Over the past three years, Egyir has traveled consistently to Aburi, a village north of Accra, where he has begun …