Environmental Force: On Abstraction and the Nature of Survival
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Welcome to the Past, Present, and Future: A Caribbean Futurist read of Antonius Roberts’ Mabrika
Blank Canvas: June 21st, 2023 featuring Brigidy Bram co-directors and producers, Kareem Mortimer and Laura Gamse
Blank Canvas: May 24th, 2023 featuring Samantha Treco of CAB, DAF featured artist Matthew Rahming, and Romel Shearer of TERN
Blank Canvas: February 1st, 2023 featuring Artist, Antonius Roberts and Curator, Dr. Krista Thompson
Blank Canvas: November 23rd, 2022 featuring TERN (Jodi Minnis, Gallery Manager), The Current at Bahamar (Averia Wright, Curator and John Cox, Creative Director) and mixed media artist Kachelle Knowles
Blank Canvas: September 21st, 2022 featuring Averia Wright, Sue-Katz and Dylan Rapillard from “Fowl Play” at The Current at Baha Mar
Blank Canvas: September 14th, 2022 featuring NE:TEN “Mercy” artists Sonia Farmer and Yasmin Glinton Poitier and curator John Cox
Artwork Highlight: Melody in the Men’s Room
Melody in the Men’s Room
Frorup shows tender caretaking in repurposing orphaned objects
By: Natalie Willis
Curator, Writer & Cultural Worker
Nassau, New Providence, The Bahamas
There is a sincerity and care in seeing what has been discarded, cast aside, and forlorn, and wanting to give it new life. This is part of the love, sorrow, and tenderness in the work of Kendra Frorup. This “Whimsical Collector” feels more like a foster mother or patron saint to orphaned objects, gently teasing out their stories and gifts. Potential for salacious interpretations in the title aside, in the case of “Melody … Read more
The Graham Foundation Grant to Krista Thompson for “Antonius Roberts: Art, Ecology, and Sacred Space”
