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Sexypink - A must for any lover of art, craft and textiles from the Caribbean region.

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Sexypink - A huge loss to Trinidad and Tobago. Thank you Geoffrey for your vision, kindness and love.

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Geoffrey's contribution to Art history. He was the definitive writer on Cazabon.

An image of one of Cazabon's paintings.

Finally, a beautiful tribute to Geoffrey MacLean from one of many friends.

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TRIBUTE TO GEOFFREY MACLEAN. In each island nation of the Eastern Caribbean, economies of scale make it so that there are only one or two (and if they are lucky, three or four) local experts in some field of study which has little to do with industry or clerical work but everything to do with the national character and its history. Because they are often without precedent, these experts often have had to travel abroad for their training or are otherwise self-trained in their chosen sector of the liberal arts/humanities/social sciences.

Trained architect and avocational art historian Geoffrey MacLean was one of these indispensable sages in the field of visual studies and the built environment. He was the world’s foremost specialist on nineteenth-century landscape and genre painter Michel Jean Cazabon. Cazabon was a partially unwitting member of a global late colonial/early post-colonial landscape painting tradition that encompassed artists such as Mexican José María Velasco, the Chartrand brothers of Cuba, Filipino painter Fernando Amorsolo, and the painters of the Hudson River School in the United States. What all of these artists had in common was their urgent need to capture and pay tribute for posterity to the natural beauty of their respective lands before that “Edenic” verdure was despoiled by then-already encroaching industrialization.

MacLean’s passion for Cazabon pressed him not only to hone further the scholastic abilities he had already developed at Presentation College in his native Trinidad and Bristol University in the U.K. but to travel back and forth between the Caribbean and Europe hunting down examples and collections of Cazabon’s work. He also assisted the government of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago in the acquisition of some Cazabon works for display in its National Museum and Art Gallery.

MacLean was generous with his knowledge, his time, and with his published materials. Every time I visited him, I came home with an armful of books and catalogues (one of my favorites is an unassuming little pamphlet of a catalogue called Chinese Artists of Trinidad & Tobago which probably played some part in my decision to write the book about Sybil Atteck on which I am currently working with Sybil’s nephew Keith). In graduate school, I relied heavily on MacLean’s Cazabon books for the research I was doing on colonial Latin American and Caribbean painting. MacLean’s enthusiasm for Cazabon’s genre painting, especially his rapt verbal and written descriptions of the late 19th century painting Negress in Gala Dress (pictured here) revealed to me that Cazabon’s paintings of local “types” (e.g., “Negress” instead of named individual) was sometimes a form of real portraiture and thus departed the tipo de país-to-costumbrismo continuum that we sometimes use in Latin American art history. Cazabon loved his people too much and included too much implied biography and other narratives in those paintings, to reduce their subjects to mere “types.” His titles were thus deceptively taxonomic.

Architect, scholar, art gallery director Geoffrey MacLean’s contribution to the study and preservation of T&T’s architecture was legendary even before his passing. He has searched out original plans for fretwork houses and saved some of these architectural jewels from the bulldozers of “developers.” He has done the same for members of the Magnificent Seven around the Queen’s Park Savannah and taught workshops on both the civic and residential architecture of Trinidad & Tobago. As MacLean himself now passes into legend, we are left with the perennial question in these small and mid-sized islands of the Eastern Caribbean each with their two or three experts on local art and architecture – who will pick up the torch?

~ Lawrence Waldron

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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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Sexypink - Malene Barnett - Crafted Kinship

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Sexypink - I am giving insight into a project begun in 2016 and then shelved after three years of intense work with the great Trinidad and Tobago Photographer Richard Acosta. Inner Sanctum:Artists Studio was conceived based on one too many parents believing that their child disappointed them by choosing Art as a degree and a possible career.

Images of Peter Sheppard in his studio in 2016

Inner Sanctum, Artists' Studios is a full colour photo-book which delves into the little known creative process and spaces of fine artists from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It features 20 of Trinidad's most prolific painters who have been exhibiting work for about twenty years. The book has a special focus on the creative spaces of artists whereby no two studios are ever the same. An attempt is made to draw insight into the correlation between an artist's creative space and process to their work.

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Sexypink - Refranes de mi Abuelita: Sayings of my Grandmother is a bi-lingual kaleidoscope of changing colors in the form of a coffee table book that encapsulates archives of knowledge and discernment from the campos of the Dominican Republic to the barrios of New York City. 

This conceptual array of expressions is fused with mesmerizing artwork that illuminates the timeless folkloric maxims of Edward Paulino's abuelita with an indelible and undeniable Antillean vibrancy. Embark on the sensory charm of Scherezade García Vásquez's artistic production, where captivating images enhance the illusion and power of these sayings which served as abuelita's beacon of light and guiding code of honor; a righteous tradition weaving history and memory that molded and educated her family through generations, migration, and war.

Refranes de mi Abuelita: Sayings of my Grandmother es un caleidoscopio bilingüe de colores cambiantes en forma de libro de mesa que encapsula archivos de conocimiento y discernimiento desde los campos de la República Dominicana hasta los barrios de la ciudad de Nueva York. Este conjunto conceptual de expresiones se fusiona con obras de arte fascinantes que iluminan las máximas folclóricas atemporales de la abuelita de Edward Paulino con una vitalidad antillana indeleble e innegable. Embárcate en el encanto sensorial de la producción artística de Scherezade García -Vázquez, donde imágenes cautivadoras realzan la ilusión y el poder de estos dichos que sirvieron como faro de luz y código de honor rector de abuelita; una tradición justa tejiendo historia y memoria que moldeó y educó a su familia a través de generaciones, migraciones y guerras.

Prologue/Prologo by Julia Alvarez

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Medulla Art Gallery is pleased to invite you to

"EDEN" BY STUART HAHN

OPENING RECEPTION:

Date: Thursday 27th July 2023

Time: 7pm - 9pm

Venue: Medulla Art Gallery

Address: #37 Fitt Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain.

For more information please contact:

Telephone: +1(868)680-1041, +1(868)622-1196

Email: medullaartgallery@gmail.com

Artist’s Talk: Thursday 10th August, 2023 at 7pm-9pm

Exhibition continues until: Tuesday 29th August, 2023

FREE ADMISSION - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm

ABOUT THE SHOW:

The story of Eden has intrigued me since childhood and this exhibition is one of the results of that, undertaken with the greatest reverence to the countless great artists who have indulged in the very same obsession over time immemorial. Philosophically I’ve come away from it with more questions than answers, especially about the god it features, the strange and disturbing notion and concept of Original Sin, what really is this thing called evil… etc etc. How closely it resembles so many other creation stories, and how it also differs from them. The cherubim obviously impressed me, though I could not bring myself to depict them as the monstrous physically deformed creatures described elsewhere.. The sad, blood-soaked story of the first murder, for me, needs much more explanation than its given. The choice of the snake as the embodiment of evil, handmade of Satan… why? Poor womankind, the bringer of the species, its very womb, so demonized… how come, why? This exhibition is the edited version of these ruminations, perhaps there will be another to complete the process, if time allows. There are also two drawings here from another ongoing series, Dante’s Divine Comedy, of the pathetic plight of Paulo and Francesca, also, hopefully, another exhibition.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Stuart Hahn was born in Nevis in 1949 and was educated in Barbados and Trinidad to A level. He began his artistic career in commercial-advertising art before leaving that discipline to become a full time fine artist in his homeland, Trinidad. His exhibition career began in 1984 in Port of Spain, since then he has exhibited internationally, to the present day. He has illustrated local folklore and universal myths and legends, predominantly Greek and Judeo-Christian. His influences have been the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists, Art Nouveau, and early 20th century book illustration, the great Alf Codallo and the beauty of the people and landscape of his island home.

Graphic Design: Agyei Archer

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Sexypink - a closer look at the work of Stuart Hahn

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Observations from the Artist Stuart Hahn

What strange and wonderful times we live in...

At my interview with Newsday there was a major problem choosing accompanying work to show (pictures of myself, roundly objected to but mandatory, it turns out, were far more important than the art actually discussed)... nudity, male nudity especially, (with penises, God forbid!) being absolutely out of the question, so I proposed this piece in all my innocence and the innocence of the little child himself. But no. Not that one either. Infact, no no NO, But Why? Because (and silly me not to know),rolling eyes... PEDOPHILIA!!! I suppose all those literally countless little baby Jesuses running through the whole history of art must also be - well but of course they are! - PEDOPHILIA, and like Michaelangelo's sinfully naked David, should be totally removed, absolutely obliterated from books and education itself lest our children and we adults too be corrupted forever...

Anyway...

The Fall Of Man

From the current exhibition EDEN at Medulla Gallery

Ink on paper.

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Sexypink - Born in 1830 in Bilbao, Víctor Patricio de Landaluze (1828 - 1889) was a Spanish born painter active for much of his career in Cuba, Landaluce received a careful education, which included learning several languages. For a time he resided in Paris. His presence in Cuba was recorded around the year 1850. He is the best-known Cuban practitioner of costum brismo, depicting Cuba peasants (guajiros), landowners, and slaves. He taught at a the Academy of Fine Arts of San Alejandro in Havana, and served as its director. He opposed Cuban independence, an attitude reflected in his work; nevertheless his paintings provide a valuable view of nineteenth-century Cuban society. His works also depict a somewhat idealized view of plantation life.

His first work consisted in the illustration of the book "The Cubans painted by themselves". In 1862 he founded the satirical and cartoon newspaper Don Junípero and in 1881 he illustrated the work Tipos y Costumbres de la Isla de Cuba. Several of his works, including "Three Kings Day in Havana", are in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana.

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Sexypink - We’re commemorating International Museum Day 2023 by giving T&T a chance to experience the story of Angostura®. This 3-part tour takes you on a detailed journey through the Angostura Museum, the Angostura Art Gallery and Barcant Butterfly Collection. Reserve your spot now.

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Only TT$40 for Adults and $10 for Students and Children under 12 years. Limited availability. By appointment only.

Call 623-1841 ext. 2255 or 2257 or email tours@angostura.com for bookings.

#Angostura #InternationalMuseumday #Tours #History

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“A to Z of Caribbean Art” is finally here and I am so happy for Melanie Archer, Mariel Brown and excited by all of the talent, history and love that has been poured into this compilation. Be sure to arrange your pre-order, this will be an amazing object of knowledge to end the year with. Order here! https://www.artbook.com/9789769534490.html

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~Sexypink~ A look at a historical document on the eve of our Independence.

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~Galleryyuhself~Food Styling Artist Delores Custer set the bar for everything to come. Rest in peace.

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Sexypink 2012 review ~ Brianna McCarthy (T&T) Mario Benjamin (HAITI) Shalini Seereeram, Makemba Kunle, (T&T) Sheena Rose (BARBADOS) Peter Sheppard (T&T) GAKS (T&T) Public Art book, Richard Acosta (T&T)

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