#sexypink/Che Lovelace

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Sexypink - Che Lovelace adds his Art to rum.

Sexypink/ Che Lovelace

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Sexypink - For today August 31st 2023 Trinidad and Tobago celebrates our 61st birthday. The Painter Che Lovelace celebrated with this image on Facebook.

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Che Lovelace - Dancer’s Ambition, 2019

acrylic and dry pigment on board panels 60x50in.

Permanent collection @ica (Institute, Contemporary Art, Miami)

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Sexypink - Great Christmas news.

Addendum : https://tt.loopnews.com/content/trinidadian-che-lovelaces-art-featured-londons-st-james

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Today,emancipation day here in Trinidad and Tobago is a timely occasion to announce a significant commission I was chosen to be part of earlier this year.The St James’s Church Piccadilly, London has commissioned me to create  four new paintings which will be installed permanently at the entrance of the church.The commission marks the 250th anniversary of the baptism of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, a prominent abolitionist of the time and a significant figure in the history of Britain. He was baptised at the church, on 20th August 1773.The fist thing that struck me is that I knew nothing about Cugoano and his life and work as major abolitionist. 

That in itself speaks volumes about how history has been told.I am humbled to discover who he was and more than honoured to be chosen to commemorate his life and what he stood for.This will be the first permanent art commission to commemorate Cugoano’s life anywhere in the world.Ottobah Cugoano was born around 1757 in that part of west Africa now known as Ghana. At the age of 13, he was kidnapped by slave traders before being shipped to the West Indies. Cugoano was sold to a plantation owner in Grenada. In 1772 He was bought by an English merchant and brought to the UK, gaining his freedom that same year.Cugoano was very active in the ‘Sons of Africa’ group which condemned the practice of slavery and campaigned for its abolition. They lobbied public figures and wrote regularly to the newspapers. Cugoano became a forthright critic of slavery and his influential book, ‘Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery’ (1787) is still in print today.“ 

Lovelace’s work not only connects with the geographies and legacies of the abhorrent Transatlantic slave trade but also evokes an honest, lyrical, sun-filled exaltation of what a vibrant future with open acknowledgement of these histories might look like. Thinking through what the act of Baptism means in theological terms, there is a sense of emerging out of water into a new tomorrow that the paintings capture.“The unveiling ceremony for the event will be held on September 20th 2023.

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Che Lovelace

SEXYPINK - Che Lovelace’s paintings are at LOFTT for a brief time. Go check them out.

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Sexypink - Che Lovelace - Trinidad and Tobago

& from his Facebook page...Very very excited! My first full scale New York gallery exhibition opens one week from now on Thursday 9th March at the Nicola Vassell Gallery in Chelsea.

The exhibition brings together paintings, some of which I’ve been working on for several years, all focused around the body and water.

Our relationship with water…the sea, rivers etc. here in the Caribbean is a complex one, and I have tried to translate through my own experiences what that relationship feels and looks like.

Folks in the New York area do come by and say hi at the opening (6-8pm) or check out the show when you have time…it runs until April 15th

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Sexypink - Che Lovelace in his own words...Sometimes paintings have long stories behind them.This one, ‘Double Climber’ originally begun in 2014 when I was working on a other paintings depicting men climbing coconut trees or poles.

The first version of the painting (and myself) traveled to Martinique in late 2014 for a 30 year anniversary exhibition organized by my ex art school,L’Ecole Regionale D'arts Plastique de la Martinique (now known as Campus Caribbean Des Arts) @cca_martinique The painting returned from the exhibition, and remained for several years on the studio floor, until it dawned on me that the work itself had more potential than what I had initially done. 

I reworked it to its current form over the course of a few months in 2022. It is currently exhibited in the exhibition’Day Always Comes’ at the Corvi-Mora Gallery in London. @corvimora images in slider include me installing the piece in Martinique.

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Sexypink - Che Lovelace - The New York Times review

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            HAPPY WOMENS DAY | Che Lovelaces paintings of women

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         Che Lovelace - a cluster of hummingbirds over water lilies.

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~Sexypink~ Che Lovelace at work.

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~Sexypink~ From Che Lovelace’s Facebook page......I’m so thrilled to share news that my 2021 painting, Nyabinghi Drummers has been acquired by MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and will now form part of their permanent collection.  Above all, it is of special significance for me that the chosen painting is so rooted in Caribbean iconography and energy.It hopefully represents an expanding interest in Caribbean art and culture within a larger global conversation.My favorite bit from the blurb on MOCA’s IG feed…. “his almost Cubist representations, dancing between the abstract and the realist

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~Sexypink~ Che gets an encore.

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~Sexypink~ From the Facebook page of Che Lovelace

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Not yet titled, this painting was somehow guided by the influential work, ‘Bongo Dancers’ by Carlisle Chang made in 1955.(Last exhibited in Jamaica for an exhibition that marked Trinidad and Tobago’s 50th year of independence.)Chang was a extraordinary and versatile artist, who while being a fierce independent thinker, was a defining part of the independence movement as Trinidad tried to look ahead from it’s colonial past.He designed the Trinidad and Tobago flag and coat of arms.In my bio I have attached a  link to a wonderful  interview (done not long before his passing in 2001) with the man himself speaking in his usual generous, affecting manner about the artistic environment of Trinidad through his years as a practitioner.I was shocked and elevated when towards the end of his interview he mentioned me as a young artist with potential... I had no knowledge that he was aware of the younger generation of artists who were working at the time.But this was a man always keenly connected to the potential of Trinidad as dynamic creative space.

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~Sexypink~ Che Lovelace’s latest work.