#sexypink/Surrealism

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Sexypink - Jamaican Digital Artist Mark Robinson (Sonn Nagai) takes us on an Afrofuturistic journey.

_he.datboii.legba_untitled manticores III - Digital 2024

Sexypink - read about the Surrealistic visions of Jamaican Digital Artist Sonn Ngai.

Sexypink - Sonn Ngai - Paimon: the chariot - Digital 2024

Sexypink - Sonn Ngai - Jupiter in Gemini - Digital 2024

Sexypink - Sonn Ngai - Guardian - Digital 2024

Sexypink - Sonn Ngai - untitled drawing - Digital - 2024

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Sexypink - Barbadian Artist Akilah Watts - Living my Life - 22” x 28”

Sexypink - Akilah Watts - This is Me - 24” x 30”

Sexypink - excerpt from Barbadian Artist Akilah Watts’s Artists statement

Sexypink - Akilah Watts - Bloodline - 36” x 36”

Sexypink - Akilah Watts - Picnic in Paradise - 24” x 30”

Sexypink - Akilah Watts - Ritual - 24” x 24”

Photorealistic Painter Akilah Watts shows us the nostalgic past and challenging present of Barbados life, a life that all of the Caribbean and the world can relate to. Her robust works play with aspects of Surrealism and in her most recent pieces, the grid system associated with Photoshop manipulation. This young woman has much to say and all the skill to do it.

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Sexypink - Bony Ramirez - Dominican Republic - Shows on now in New York

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Sexypink - Shannon T Lewis’s out of this world paintings.

One return led to another

Spare beauty

Shadows of fortune

A platform of ambiguity

Exceeds the Grounds of Any One Wood

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Shannon T. Lewis  (b. 1981 in Toronto, Canada; lives and works in Berlin, Germany) is an artist of Caribbean descent reconfiguring human forms and the spaces they inhabit within her complex and vivid paintings. Lewis begins with assemblage — the forefront of her practice — utilizing fragments of form and space. Particularly inspired by social cues of culture, whimsical aspects in the work evoke a notion of freedom by examining marginalized identities.

The use of architectural elements is a recurring element, oftentimes inspired by ornate iconography. Painted and interlaced limbs reconnoiter the history of femininity and its relation to Blackness. Lewis offers a window into freedom and body politics as the figurative compositions explore surrealism. Haunting portraits derived from archival and personal sources, Lewis imbues the past and present to construct a utopian future.

Lewis has exhibited in Canada, the United States, Trinidad, Switzerland, England and Germany. She has a Bachelor of Arts from OCADU in Toronto (Canada) and a Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London (UK).

Information courtesy https://marianeibrahim.com/artists/60-shannon-t.-lewis/

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Richard Nattoo is an illustrator and fine artist born in St. Catherine Jamaica. He graduated from the University of Technology where he received a BA in Architecture. Richard’s work has been featured in several National Gallery of Jamaica exhibitions as well as solo exhibits. He has garnered much acclaim for his surreal dreamlike creations that explore human emotions on a raw cerebral level.

Born in 1958, Alwyn St. Omer is the fourth child in a family of nine. His Mother Cynthia was a personal assistant in the Prime Minister’s office and his father the late Hon. Sir Dunstan St. Omer, a widely acclaimed international artist of Saint Lucian origins.

As a child, Alwyn was inspired by the plentiful supply of picture books around the house, which served to motivate him to draw and paint pictures. Also, at about age six he was introduced to Illustrated Classics and Marvel Comics, which stimulated his appetite, not only for graphic designs, but also for fairytales and storytelling in a pictorial format. Growing up in an artistic environment provided stimulus. Alwyn as a young inspiring artist was privileged to witness plays performed by the famous local company—Saint Lucia Arts Guild—adding a dimension of realism to what he saw and read on the page. He was enamoured by plays steeped in the island’s rich folk and musical traditions that included some of the early works of the island’s Nobel Laureate, poet Derek Walcott and his playwright twin brother Roderick.

It is from this launching pad that Alwyn, the artist and storyteller was thrust into orbit, a creative artist with very deep passion and lifelong desire to document his island’s cultural heritage through his drawings and paintings. For him rediscovery and preservation of all the treasures forming the formidable expanse loosely termed the Saint Lucian Environment, History, Culture and Folklore would be his life’s achievement. Its art, myths, writings and traditions.

Alwyn studied Art at the Edna Manley School for the Visual Arts in Jamaica and Video Production and Audio Visuals at Portsmouth College in England. Alwyn is a master draughtsman and colorist defining and refining images in a style that is uniquely his own. His work is numerous including paintings in Acrylics and oil on canvas, Pen and ink illustrations and wall murals. Of note are his Design of St Lucia’s National Independence Monument, the Semi Dome Mural in the ceiling of the ancient River Doree Anglican Church in Choiseul, the Castries City Council commissioned outdoor murals at Faux- a-Chaud on the outskirts of the city, his Moon Dancer Series of abstract Paintings based on the lost Masquerade Tradition of St Lucia and Soucoyan, a Graphic Novel on St Lucian Folktales.

Rhonda Chan Soo is a Trinidadian documentary filmmaker. She earned merit-based scholarships which allowed her to pursue her tertiary studies in the US, where various threads interwove into her pursuit of a career in documentary film. She has been the Managing Director of Bird’s Eye View Productions since 2018, and has kept the social issue tradition of the company alive, further moulding it with her creative voice. Informed by empathy, a desire for justice and equality, and a critical practice that acknowledges her own positionality as a POC woman from the Global South, Rhonda is interested in exploring social issues, environment and culture.

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~Sexypink~ Featured in this article is Jamaican born  Nicola Vassell. Congratulations!

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~Sexypink~ Covid-19 has given Art a greater presence all over the world and the same is happening here at home. I appreciate this article.