On Blank Canvas, host Amard Rolle (the NAGB’s Executive Assistant)discuss a busy two weeks of exciting exhibitions for the art community with Samantha Treco of CAB, DAF featured artist Matthew Rahming, and Romel Shearer of TERN.
On today’s Blank Canvas, the show on which we discuss visual culture and creative community, your guest host Katrina Cartwright, NAGB Education and Outreach Manager is joined by TERN (Jodi Minnis, Gallery Manager), The Current at Bahamar (Averia Wright, Curator and John Cox, Creative Director) and mixed media artist Kachelle Knowles.
On this week’s “NAGB’s Blank Canvas” we spoke with Jodi Minnis, the Gallery Manager at Nassau’s newest physical art space, TERN on Mahogany Hill, about the closing exhibition “Inherited Values” featuring artist Kendra Frorup, that she curated to inaugurate the new space.
By Natalie Willis. The brush of a hand, a comfortable silence, the ability to show tears freely. All of this encompasses the idea of the word intimacy, and this is what Jodi Minnis is exploring through the historic, heavy tradition of oil painting. There are certain images that come to mind when we think of oils: grand halls and gilded frames showing mythic men and genteel women. Very rarely, however, do we think of Black faces amidst the magic and trickery of traditional figurative oil paintings, taking the texture of our 3-dimensional world into the 2-dimensional canvas plane – and we certainly do not think of Caribbean ones. Minnis, finishing up her studies in Fine Art at the University of Tampa, is trying her own hand at shifting this narrative for a new show, “Intimacy” opening on August 10th at 6:00pm at the Central Bank of The Bahamas. We managed to catch her for a few words.
By Natalie Willis. A lonely husk of a seed floats across the oceans, from either India or Southeast Asia– we aren’t quite sure which–and finds itself in various locales across that lateral band of the planet we call the tropics. This foreign species found itself here, rooted itself, and has become for us an integral part of the way we view our landscape as Bahamians, as a Caribbean nation, and as a “tropical paradise.” But how? And what does it mean to have the coconut palm be a symbol of us as a nation, as part of the region, when it is not native to our limestone isles? This is what Jodi Minnis investigates in her new solo show, “Home|Home” on display at the D’Aguilar Art Foundation (DAF) through August 15th.
Jodi Minnis investigates and challenges doctrines, principles and life experiences that shaped her maturity. Being born on a Bahamian island, moulded in femininity, and carved by Christian doctrine, she reflects on these things and uses her work to question their impact on her life. Through a variety of media, Minnis hopes to understand what it means to be a young Bahamian woman.
The Pro-Gallery at the University of The Bahamas (UB) will soon play host to an exhibition of work by emerging artist Jodi Minnis, on the eve of her temporary departure from The Bahamas in pursuit of higher education.