National Exhibition 4 Catalogue

Publisher: National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 976-95098-9-2

Pages: 84

Texts: Essay by Erica M. James; foreword by D. Gail Saunders, PhD

Designer: Dionne Benjamin-Smith

The fourth National Exhibition (NE4) was notably smaller than previous National Exhibitions, including thirty artists and fifty works. 

“The art is strong, thought provoking, technically sound, aesthetically beautiful, sometimes excruciatingly spare in formal terms, but ripe. The exhibition contains an amazing range of subjects and materials in ways that are sometimes recognizable, but more often fresh, innovative and crisp. Collectively, the participating artists manage a degree of self-possession and fearlessness not seen prior to this moment in Bahamian art.”

—Erica M. James, Curator