Natascha Vazquez Archives - National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

Leaning on your community to create: Natascha Vazquez speaks on her first time National Exhibition

25 February 2019

By Kevanté Cash- NAGB Correspondent When the call for “The Fruit and The Seed” exhibition went out last year, the

Margot Bethel’s Portal: Unpacking memories of Womanhood

9 April 2017

Bahamian artist, Margot Bethel, explores ideas of femininity and the roles of women from both past and present day. In “Portal: There’s a WHole in the Bucket”, Bethel transforms a collection of mundane, everyday objects into a sculptural installation proposing the idea of the hole and the whole, simultaneously describing aspects of gender inequality, female stereotypes, and objectivity.

Kendal Hanna’s “Rainbow Explosion”: Finding self through abstraction

13 February 2017

Kendal Hanna, a Bahamian artist and forerunner of abstract painting, brilliantly captures energetic expression and emotion through the intense repetition of line exemplified in Untitled (Rainbow Explosion). Hanna has masterfully engaged in his medium, stretching its ability to exist both boldly and lightly, from heavy black in the foreground to a luminous yellow in the background. Splatters surrounding the composition and within provide insight into the craftsmanship of the work, leaving signs of active brushwork –one may imagine Hanna physically engaging with the paper, paintbrush and paint with high energy, working confidently as his subconscious mind expresses itself on the paper.