#Sexypink/Dr. Marsha Pearce

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Sexypink - Out of the blocks for 2024. What a delight that a book begins the year.

From Dr Marsha Pearce's Facebook page...

I am happy to announce the release of Black Light Void: Dark Visions of the Caribbean. The book is an edited collection of paintings by Trinidadian artist Edward Bowen and six short-story responses to Bowen's work, written by Trinidadian award-winning writers Kevin Jared Hosein, Barbara Jenkins, Sharon Millar, Amílcar Presi Sanatan, Portia Subran and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw.

As Editor, Dr Marsha Pearce states...

With this book project, I ask: What stories lie beyond those experiences lit up by the sun–the light that is a defining feature of the tropics?

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Carifesta XIV

"August" by Sarah Knights

"Social Studies II" by Alex Kelly

"Basic Yellow" by Shane Hanson Mohammed

Do take advantage to see one of the many shows currently on display at the National Academy of the Performing Arts (NAPA) in Port of Spain as part of the offerings for Carifesta XIV. “Enter the Picture” is a show of contemporary works of six emerging Artists, graduates of The University of the West Indies from the Department of Creative and Festival Arts.

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Sexypink - Upcoming.

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Sexypink - We have a Trini in Venice! Dr Pearce represents us at the 14 th edition of the Black Portraiture (s) Conference.

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Sexypink - REVIEWS of A moment of Quiet by Wendy Nanan

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The Faculty of Humanities and Education, at the UWI St. Augustine Campus, is pleased to host the art exhibition “A Whole History Still.” 

The event commemorates Trinidad and Tobago’s 60th anniversary of independence. 

Featuring work by 14 artists, the exhibition asks: How much do we know about ourselves? The show’s title, taken from an essay by Trinidadian intellectual Lloyd Best, suggests we still have work to do in assessing and making sense of who we are. There is a whole history still, a broader picture for us to see and understand. “A Whole History Still” emphasizes the ongoing work of knowing ourselves—a people who are part of a story that reaches a long way back, and projects into the future.“A Whole History Still” opens at the Rotunda Gallery, The Red House, Port of Spain, on Monday November 7, and runs for two weeks, until Friday November 18.9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday10am to 6pm, Saturday November 12

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Participating Artists:James Armstrong, Vera Baney, Edward Bowen, LeRoy Clarke, Christopher Cozier, Kenwyn Crichlow, Che Lovelace, Cynthia McLean, Wendy Nanan, Maria Nunes, Shawn Peters, Shalini Seereeram, Salisha Stanley, Audley Sue Wing

Image: “The Dreamer” 2021, by Salisha Stanley. Courtesy the artist.

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A Sense of Arrival: An Exhibition of Essays continues at Medulla Art Gallery until Nov 14

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~Sexypink~ Art in the Time of Coronavirus: Donald Jackie Hinkson and Marsha Pearce in conversation During the coronavirus lockdown in Trinidad and Tobago, artist Donald 'Jackie' Hinkson created a mural 9x45 feet in his limited studio space. Dr. Marsha Pearce, Lecturer and Visual Arts Unit Coordinator at the Department of Creative and Festival Arts, UWI St. Augustine Campus, invited Hinkson to discuss the new work. Art in the Time of Coronavirus documents their conversation.Read about Hinkson’s attention to navigating between the form of a painting and its message. Learn how he manages the pace of movement as a viewer’s eye travels across the work, and get insights to his perspectives and mood as he reflects on the artist in society and observes our wider world.

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Virtual Lecture Event | Tuesday March 22, 2022 | 3pm-4pm EST.Register here: https://syracuseuniversity.zoom.us/.../WN...

Scholar, educator and curator Marsha Pearce considers how physical and digital spaces not only enable us to experience Black Art, but also the nuances and complexities of Black Life in precarious times.

Pearce's talk draws upon Christina Sharpe's theory of "wake work."Looking at the African-derived Caribbean expression of Limbo—a dance traditionally performed during wake ceremonies, in which family and friends convene in honor of the dead—Pearce sees a vocabulary for mediating curatorial practice, the art exhibition space and Black existence. The lecture pivots on a discussion of the No Words exhibition, a solo show of works by Kevin Adonis Browne. The exhibition is curated by Pearce.

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~Sexypink~  Caribbean In/securities is an online group exhibition that explores precarity and freedom in their multiplicity, while grounding its scope in the localised space of Caribbean realities past and present. It brings together six contemporary artists from the region and its diaspora, in its address of creative practice as a means through which we can attend to the agency required in negotiations between security and insecurity.Curated by Marsha Pearce.

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Image: Detail of Another Horizon (2020) by Richard Mark Rawlins. Courtesy the artist.

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Participating artists: Deborah Anzinger, Alex Kelly, Kelly Sinnapah Mary, Lynn Parotti, Richard Mark Rawlins and Christopher Udemezue.

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To view artworks and download the exhibition catalogue, visit: https://caricuk.co.uk/.../caribbean-in-securities.../This exhibition is commissioned by CARICUK (Creative Approaches to Race and In/security in the Caribbean and the UK), with funding from the United Kingdom Research Institute’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

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~Sexypink~  Quarantine and Art is a conversation series initiated in the context of the global COVID-19 lockdown. Connect with artists and their ideas. Get insights from creative practitioners from the Caribbean and its Diaspora as they talk about their artworks, art-related issues and their personal responses to the pandemic. Each conversation’s Q&A – question and answer – format offers a sense of closeness in a time of social distancing. Part virtual studio visit; part checkup on the wellbeing of the art community; Quarantine and Art is an archive of a particular moment. Look out for new conversations each week. marshapearce.com/qanda/

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~Sexypink~ The latest conversation

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~Sexypink~  NO WORDS: A SOLO EXHIBITION BY KEVIN ADONIS BROWNE

Curated by Marsha Pearce

In 2020 Kevin Adonis Browne wrote No Words, an essay in response to the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota USA. He then translated his text into a number of digital videos.

 The No Words exhibition brings together his videos and a series of his self-portraits in its address of Black life and Black representation during a critical, global juncture marked by racial violence. The exhibition attends to worldwide experiences through a personal lens. It presents Browne’s work as a sequence of radical breaths drawn in a landscape of anti-Blackness. No Words transforms the physical gallery into an essay in three dimensions – offering a space to reflect on present and future states of individual and collective existence.

Exhibition dates: April 26 – May 7, 2021Venue: Thinkartworktt Studio, 11 Cipriani Boulevard, Port of Spain      

Monday to Saturday: 11am to 7pmFor visits on Sunday: Send a message to book a viewing time.

WhatsApp: 769-1948Covid-19 public health protocols observed. 

Visitor capacity is limited, and face coverings are required.

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~Sexypink~  Enjoy another conversation in the Quarantine and Art (Q&A) series! In her exchange with Marsha Pearce, artist Tessa Mars talks about work for an upcoming group show in Basel Switzerland. She shares details about a special mask she has crafted during this pandemic and offers insight to her evolving alter ego known as Tessalines, who features in her art practice. Read the conversation here: https://bit.ly/31oBBvb

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Enjoy another conversation in the Q&A series! In his exchange with Marsha Pearce, artist Rodell Warner talks about his growing Augmented Archive series and his recent work for Well Now WTF? He shares how he sees art these days and reflects on the inadequacy of the virtual domain in its current form. Read here: https://bit.ly/33rmgeB

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~Sexypink~ My friend Remi Jungerman’s interview with Dr. Marsha Pearce is a must read.