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Sexypink - "PASSION!"A Tribute to GLENN ROOPCHAND!

As the first week of this exhibition comes to a close, let's take a look at a few close-ups from this master's collection! You can preview the entire exhibition by clicking the link in our Bio to view the ONLINE CATALOG A MUST SEE exhibition in person!

Visit our PORT-OF-SPAIN branch to view this visual delight!

Exhibition runs until May 12th 2023.Contact Arnim's Art Galleria @714-4550/ 301-3216 for more information! arnimsartgalleria@gmail.com

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Sexypink - Remembering Botero.

Flores   -   Fernando Botero  , 1988

Colombian, b.1932-

Oil on canvas, 200 x 130

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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 - Ronald Cyrille (B. Bird) - Dominica/Guadeloupe - Out of literal FIRE Ronald Cyrille (B.bird) began his journey anew and blows us away in the process.

Sexypink - Ronald Cyrille (B. bird)

Mr Cyrill’s work carries a current, an indefinable energy. Unmistakably Caribbean in the vibrant use of colors and forms, whether he works in sculpture or canvas you are welcomed into a world of metamorphic juxtapositioning of flora, fauna and mankind - a glimpse into the movements of our first peoples throughout the centuries before Christianity whisked them away. Yet, he looks head in at the duality of the present . His reflections as an Artist producing in his space with his experiences of loss, bewilderment and desire.

Sexypink - Ronald Cyrille ( B.bird) - Lost in the vegetation 2024

Sexypink - Ronald Cyrille (B.bird) - The unknown Land 2024

Sexypink - Ronald Cyrille (B.bird)

Sexypink - Ronald Cyrille (B.bird ) - acrylic painting - portrait

Sexypink - Ronald Cyrille (B.bird)

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Sexypink - a look at the scale of the work of Ronald Cyrille

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Sexypink - Brian Ashing - Paradise of Scorched Earth (30” x 30”) oil on canvas

Sexypink - The Legend Mick Jagger with his aquired Brian Ashing Paradise of Scorched Earth.

Sexypink - Brian Ashing - from his recent show Nature of Power.

Sexypink - Brian Ashing - Heart of Fire, Tongue of Embers- 20” x 16” - oil on linen

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Sexypink - Royalty in the red.

New Official Portrait of King Charles III

The first official painted portrait of King Charles III since his coronation has been unveiled at Buckingham Palace.

The vast oil on canvas shows a larger-than-life King Charles in the uniform of the Welsh Guards.

The vivid red work, measuring about 8ft 6in by 6ft 6in, is by Jonathan Yeo, who has also painted Tony Blair, Sir David Attenborough and Malala Yousafzai.

Queen Camilla is said to have looked at the painting and told Yeo: "Yes, you've got him."

In the new portrait, the King is depicted, sword in hand, with a butterfly landing on his shoulder.

Unveilings are always a little nerve-wracking, both for the sitter and the artist, but particularly when one of them is a King.

Yeo jokes: "If this was seen as treasonous, I could literally pay for it with my head, which would be an appropriate way for a portrait painter to die - to have their head removed!"

In reality, Yeo isn't going to lose his head of course - no executions for a badly received portrait of a monarch, in modern times anyway.

By Katie Razzall.

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Sexypink - major browny points!

Sexypink/ Jamaican Oil Painter Alicia Brown.

Alicia Brown’s candid imagery is so very watchable and provocative. - Sexypink

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Sexypink - Zilia Sanchez died in 2024. Her career spanned seventy years! On my first observation I was seduced by her minimalist restraint and focus on materials.

Sexypink - Cuban Artist Zilia Sanchez

Sexypink - Sanchez’s work looks at the masculine and feminine. She balances contrasts.

Sexypink - Zilia Sanchez - Cuban Artist who worked in Puerto Rico.

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Sexypink -Art is a captured literacy that can be read visually. This is at the heart of the expansive paintings of French Artist Johanna Mirabel of Guyanese heritage. She captures the essence of things hard to articulate but very present in one’s psyche.

Sexypink - Johanna Mirabel - Mercredi des cedres n.2

Sexypink - Johanna Mirabel - Adieu la chair

Sexypink - Johanna Mirabel - Faire Maigre - Go Lean - 2024

Sexypink - Johanna Mirabel - Huile sur toile

Read and see more here -: nathalieobedia.com

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Michel Jean Cazabon

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Sexypink - Demosthene mystifies.

M Florine Demosthene

A closer look.

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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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Sexypink - Enter the world of Rex Dixon.

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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 - an exciting show ahead.

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Sexypink - Sheena Rose announces the sale of her work to International Tennis Star Venus Williams! Set/Match Sheena!

#Sheena Rose: Believe in Yourself