On today’s Blank Canvas, the show on which we discuss visual culture and creative community, your host Amard Rolle is visited by NAGB colleagues Amaani Hepburn, Curatorial Assistant and Zearier Munroe-Wilkinson, Community Outreach Officer, to discuss the new Inter-Island Traveling Exhibition (ITE), “Thirty: Island Perspectives” and its accompanying programming.
The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas is honoured to announce the upcoming exhibition of The Whimsical Collector, a mid-career survey […]
To Throw Rocks, curated by Matthew Rahming, is an exploration of wider Black masculinities. In unpacking the tropes around Black masculine identities in The Bahamas, through a survey of practices ranging from the 70s to now, this selection puts particular focus on love, sex and sexuality, tenderness, labor and violence. The exhibition features work by Rashad Adderley, John Beadle, Justin Benjamin, Tyesha Brooks, Blake Fox, Amaani Hepburn, Allan Jones and Rashad Leamount, Jodi Minnis, Heino Schmid, Jarette Stubbs and Bradley Wood. In an effort to widen the scope of voices present, artwork from the National Collection, The Collection of the University of the Bahamas and the Brenton Story Collection have been drawn from to round out the conversation in its fullness. These voices come together to acknowledge the powers and privileges (or lack thereof) at play, to face the vulnerability, to bring awareness to responsibility, and to address conflicts around what it means to exist as a man, particularly a black man, in The Bahamas. To Throw Rocks opens on Thursday, November 21st at 5:30pm in the Franklin Wilson Graduate Centre on the University of the Bahamas’ Oaksfield Campus as a part of in conjunction with the 8th annual Critical Caribbean Symposium Series. The exhibition will run until December 2019. For more information, please feel free to contact Matthew Rahming at [email protected]
Doongalik Studios Art Gallery will open an exhibition featuring Bahamian artist Dyah Neilson on Thursday, August 15th, 2019 from 6-9pm. Her debut solo show, Love & Fear will feature mostly paintings depicting the battle with anxiety and depression, as well as the love for self that is found in learning to accept mental and emotional struggle and the fight to overcome it.
Opening this Thursday at 5:00pm, free admission. For her first solo show at the art gallery of the Central Bank titled “See me Here”, Bahamian photographer Melissa Alcena created a series of eighteen new portraits from an unusual vantage point. Setting her camera from behind she followed a long overlooked tradition of portraiture that flirts with the power of mystery and provokes questions about identity, circumstances and action.
The Salus Gallery invites you to the opening of “Keeping It Cool,” a solo art exhibit by Harry Wallace.
19th July 2019 – 6pm – FREE ADMISSION
Light refreshments will be served.
“Harry Wallace is a self-taught artist with a unique ability to create typical painted works. Personal experiences, the beauty of the world that surrounds him, and enchanting stories tend to be his muse. Wallace’s modern approach is easily identified by his radical, yet calm use of rich colors and peculiar shapes and figures.
Although his style ventures where his inspiration leads, there is a recognizable synthesis in his color palette.
Today, Wallace’s work highlights samples of various subjects, themes, and ideas that he will develop in the future. Upcoming projects for Wallace include an exhibition in late, spring, summer and fall.”
Doongalik Studios will open a new group show from 6-9pm on Thursday, July 18 entitled “Self: Portrait” featuring the work of four members of the newly formed WE Artists’ Collective of Xan Xi, Amaani Hepburn, Edward Zemaye, and Thomas Hairston who “are a Caribbean based Artist’s Collective seeking to make sense of our lives, and fulfil our duty as artists in this space. WE are looking to understand ourselves and each other within the context of our shared history, and shared experiences- both traumas and triumphs.”
By Holly Bynoe. The “Double Dutch” series supports the concept of bringing together local and regional artists, irrespective of where they are currently residing, to work with a group of ideas personal, political and otherwise crucial to the development of a contemporary Bahamian identity. These artists and collectives are often divided linguistically and geographically but are united by common historical, economic or practice-based conditions. For this reason, the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) pilot project attempts to create and maintain ties throughout the Caribbean and its more extensive diaspora.