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Sexypink/ Jamaican Oil Painter Alicia Brown.

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

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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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Michel Jean Cazabon

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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~ Sheena Rose’s wonderfully expressive works.

I See You, 2020 ( 30 inches x 36 inches , acrylic on canvas) #mirror #reflection #pattern #confidence #awareness #blackdiaspora #history #leaningforward #invisibles #sweetgossip #sheenarose #artist #caribbean #barbados

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Sexypink - Che Lovelace adds his Art to rum.

Sexypink/ Che Lovelace

Sexypink/ a closer look.

Sexypink - label Art.

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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 - Renaissance and Resistance.

This Performance piece by recent Maestro Dobel Latinx Art Prize 2023 Awardee Carlos Martiel (Cuban) reflects the great painting of St Sebastian by Andrea Mantegna (1459) Martiel uses his black body unironically in an Italian setting to bring home the sacrifice and martyrdom faced by those constantly oppressed and murdered for causes against inhumanity to man.

Mantegna chose to stand St.Sebastian up in a classical Christlike pose. Martiel chooses the fetal position to advance the action of the impaling just as dramatically.

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Sexypink looks at a work by Carlos Martiel -

Trophy CUBA. Tatuare la storia, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (PAC), Milan, Italy. Curated by Diego Sileo and Giacomo Zaza

I am lying down ‎in a fetal position with a hunting arrow piercing my waist.

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Sexypink - Jackie Hinkson - Carnival themed painting.

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Sexypink - Mr Vasquez breathes life and more importantly warmth into photo realism.

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Raelis Vasquez is a visual artist who immigrated from the Dominican Republic to the United States. His work explores personal and political themes regarding his experience as an Afro-Latino artist in America. He confronts the inaccurate stereotypes of his Afro-Latino ancestry by unveiling historical silences of family, societal life and the traumatic and disruptive experience of immigration. His work is in collections including the Perez Art Museum, Miami and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He has a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; he is a 2021 MFA candidate at Columbia University.

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Sexypink - Shalini Seereeram - Molassi ...traditional carnival mas.

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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 - Trinidadian artist Sarah Knights talks to Helen Rosslyn about the biggest commission of her life: capturing a King for Tatler’s exclusive cover portrait, set to go on display at Sotheby’s this summer.Published online 17 May 2023

Tatler heralds a new royal era with a historic portrait of King Charles III for the cover of the July issue. 

See full online article by Helen Rosslyn here -https://www.tatler.com/.../king-charles-iii-new-portrait...This article was originally published in the July issue, on sale 25 May 2003

Copyright: Tatler Magazine, Vogue House

Photography credit: Stefano Caines