Wosene Kosrof (1950- ) from Ethiopia now lives in California and has exhibited widely in the United States, Ethiopia, Europe and Japan. His work is distinguished by canvases full of detail, calligraphic symbols and panes of rich color. As Kennedy wrote in her book, “Drawing on the wealth of calligraphy in the ancient liturgical languages of Geez and contemporary Amharic, each with alphabets of several hundred symbol characters, Wosene uses them like tracers to re-assert the authority of history.” His painting Family Portrait lll brings to mind the work of Wilfredo Lam of Trinidad in its rich coloration and intricate layers of detail highlighted with punctuations of red. On careful inspection a group of figures wearing masks seem ready to march forward out of the painting.