2008 ~ ART:Jamaica

Monday, November 3, 2008

LOOKING AHEAD: There are times when I look back....

Monday, November 03, 2008 Bob and Marcia , downtown Kingston , Gallery 178 , gifted and black , Harbour Street , Jamaican talent , pop dancers , Rozi Chung , West Street , Young Gifted and Black 2 comments

YOUNG, GIFTED & BLACKA newish old space holds a second launch with an exhibition of contemporary art. The curator and director of the space Rozi Chung sees the show as launching the new Jamaican artist. At the same time the show goes back to a time when being rude, loud, raw, smart, clever, informed, playful was what art was about. A time before commercial gallery art shows and artists prizes and slickness. A new, old moment. The show opens...

NIGGAH DEH WINNAH: Lawrence Graham Brown

Thursday, August 21, 2008 Africaness , Afro-Caribbean , Blackness , Everald Brown , gay balls , Jamaican dialect , Jamaicaness , Niggah Deh Winnah , Ras Dizzy , Shelly-Ann Fraser , Usain Bolt , Veronica Campbell-Brown 2 comments

Still on the highs of the wins made in Beijing by the Jamaican team, it seems appropriate to speak about 'Niggah Deh Winnah'. Lawrence Graham-Brown, A Jamaican artist based in the United States who has exhibited regularly on the Jamaican art scene,tells us about his work.I first saw Graham-Brown's work in the 2005 Biennial at The National Gallery. I was convinced it was the work of a newly emerging older artist, given the 'intuitive' use of materials...

Tribute to Christopher Gonzalez

Sunday, August 17, 2008 Black Christ , Bob Marley Statue , Christopher Gonzalez , Jamaica School of Art , Jamaican sculpture. Abstract Relief Sculpture 2 comments

Image source: http://media-files.gather.com/images/d246/d672/d744/d224/d96/f3/full.jpgThe following obituary was issued by the Edna Manley College:THE EDNA MANLEY COLLEGE PAYS TRIBUTE TO CHRISTOPHER GONZALEZThe Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts deeply regrets the passing of the acclaimed Jamaican sculptor and painter, Christopher Gonzalez, who was one of its earliest graduates and a former lecturer at its school of art.Christopher...

KINGSTON ON THE EDGE: THE CITY'S NEW COOL ARTS FESTIVAL

Monday, June 16, 2008 Arts Crawl , Kingson on the Edge , Red Bones , Urban Arts Festival 1 comment

Kingston on the Edge returns this year after last years success. It is a growing phenomenon and injects some vibrance into the summer art scene. The programme line up involves music, performance, a gallery crawl, screenings etc. Check out the programme below and please send us images and comments on your experience of the various events. For more info. visit myspace.com/kingstonedge and send emails to kingstonedge@gmail.com.CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW...

Curator's Eye 3: The newness and nowness of our cultural past

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Ceremony , Jamaican art , Keith Morrison , National Gallery of Jamaica , Tyler School of Arts No comments

The Curator's Eye III opened at the National Gallery of Jamaica on April 27, 2008. The show comes around every two years and provides a thesis about contemporary Jamaican art propsed by an internationally invited curator. The curators invited in the past have been Lower Stokes Sims and Eddie Chambers. This year Keith Morrison of the Tyler School of Art was invited. From September 2007, artists were invited to share in Morrison's vision for this...

An Artist at An Auction

Monday, March 17, 2008 Art Market , Auction , Auctioneer , Damien Hirst , Gilou Bauer , JCDC , Mutual Gallery , Stacy-Ann Hyde , William Tavares-Finson 8 comments

The Mutual Gallery recently organized an auction of art by contemporary and/or emerging artists. This was a bold move by Gilou Bauer, the gallery's curator, as auctions in Jamaica have mainly been a haven for collectors of established artists. The auctioneer, William Tavares-Finson said it was his first auction for younger artists in his orientation talk. I suppose the art market in Jamaica, like several other places, needs stability and surety...

State of the Arts: A Letter from Christopher Gonzalez

Friday, February 15, 2008 Christopher Gonzalez , Collectors , Edna Manley College , Mutual Gallery , NCB , Young Generation 4 comments

An example of Christopher Gonzalez's work from www.harmonyhall.comWhen ART:Jamaica sent out its first e-newsletter in November 2007,we received a an email from Christopher Gonzalez, famed Jamaican artist, speaking about many timely issues within Jamaican contemporary art. I then assured Mr. Gonzalez that this blog was founded to promote the under-reperesented, whoever that may be. We do however focus on contemporary art as we want to help develop...

SYMBIOSIS: Marlon Griffith

Thursday, January 10, 2008 Alice Yard space , Alliance Francais , Cage Gallery , Caraibes en Creation , caribbean art , Cultures France , Marlon Griffith , Symbiosis , veerle poupeye 2 comments

Marlon Griffith, a young Trinidadian artist, had his first solo show in Jamaica towards the end of 2007. He mounted the show at The CAG[e] Gallery, Edna Manley College, in completion of his residency programme with Caraibes en Creation through the French Embassy. The artists previous work documented online reveals a concern with social activism, notably his P-O-L-I-T-E performance done in Cape Town, This work however, while retaining social concerns,...

Materialising Slavery: Art, Artefact Memory and Identity

Saturday, January 05, 2008 Christopher Irons , David Boxer , installation , Institute of Jamaica , Jamaican art , Khalfani Ra , Lawrence Graham-Brown , Materialising Slavery , Oneika Russell , slavery No comments

Images taken of the current exhibition at the Institute of JamaicaThe opening of the exhibition Materialising Slavery: Art, Artefact Memory and Identity was very well attended on Thursday, December 13, at 3 pm. Wayne Modest set the stage with the historical background of our Nation and the context within which each representing artist and ambassador leads. The exhibiting artists are David Boxer, Lawrence Graham-Brown, Christopher Irons, Khalfani...