last updated may 3, 2024
“The Dreamers”, found in If I had the Wings (2017), Helen Klonaris
How to be A True-True Bahamian (1994), Patricia Glinton-Meicholas*
“The Impossible Garden” found
Justin Benjamin is a painter who primarily works out of his studio in New Providence. Most of his painting scenes depict life on family islands he has frequented throughout his life – Eleuthera, Long Island, and Abaco – and his works place the audience squarely in the perspective of the intimate voyeur. In his book Vermeer and the Delft School (2001), scholar Walter A. Liedtke describes Vermeer as “a perceptive invader of privacy.”
As the intimate voyeur, Benjamin acts as an observer of the unperceived, mundane,
Between the years of 2004 and 2005, The Bahamas was hit by three devastating hurricanes: the subsequent destructions of the twin storms Frances and Jeanne in late 2004, and then almost a year later, Hurricane Wilma in 2005.
By Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett
The University of The Bahamas
The current show at The Current Gallery & Art Center by Stan Burnside is yet another mesmerising moment in time.Though we do not often think of slices of time, nor do we have the opportunity to enjoy those slices for their intense flavour and spicy complexity, we are far too busy trying to keep our heads above water, to enjoy the aesthetics of life. This is perhaps something that we overlook in our day to day grind and being ground, but in taking a few moments to explore Burnside’s most recent … Read more
By Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett
The University of The Bahamas
Movie screening as part of the programming for “The Visual Life of Social Affliction”, a Small Axe Project.
The sea as life
One is buoyed on by levity, not dropped like a lead weight to the bottom of the sea, where there are souls that link from Africa to the New World and back again. These disembodied figures, souls linking lands, the … Read more
