#sexypink/portraiture

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Sexypink - Save the date - Esther Griffith’s upcoming show.

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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 - The ethereal paintings of Guadeloupe Artist Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux

Sexypink - Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux’s Eulogy to Memory I and II

Sexypink - Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux - Le Poids de la memoire

Sexypink - Guadeloupe Artist Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux

Sexypink - on first seeing the striking paintings of Lincy ( Elladj) Deloumeaux I was struck by the sharp contrast between his self portraiture and finely detailed filigreed tablecloths surrounding him like an angelic shroud.

Imani Perry’s observations on colour observed…Deloumeaux’s haunting imagery spark a slew of emotions on the solitary nature of many of his canvases. This young Guadeloupean now living in Paris has much to guide his practice.

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Sexypink - International Art news.. - Image against likeness.

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Sexypink - Demosthene mystifies.

M Florine Demosthene

A closer look.

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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

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Sexypink - The expressionistic realism attributed to Barbadian Painter Alanis Forde’s ouvre is well founded in her confidant brushstrokes.

Sexypink - Alanis Forde

Sexypink - Alanis Forde - Prussian, Analgam and Immersion

Sexypink - Alanis Forde - Autonomy

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Sexypink - Aurora Honeywell - The Fall

Aurora Honeywell- detail

Sexypink - Aurora Honeywell- Writing on The Fall

Sexypink - Aurora Honeywell - detail

Sexypink - Aurora Honeywell- I am She - 36” x 36 “

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Sexypink - Jamaican Artist Marisa Willoughby-Holland deserves an encore.

Sexypink - Marisa Willoughby-Holland.

Sexypink - Jamaican Artist abroad.

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Sexypink - Studio Zano’s portrait workshop - save the date.

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Sexypink - We have a Trini in Venice! Dr Pearce represents us at the 14 th edition of the Black Portraiture (s) Conference.

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

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Sexypink - California-based, Bahamian artist April Bey @aprilbey_ is one of 14 artists featured in a group exhibition entitled "Witness" co-curated by Tina Knowles Lawson @mstinalawson (yes, Beyonce's mom) and award-winning artist, consultant and writer Genel Ambrose @genelambrose at the Waco Theater Center @wacotheater in Los Angeles.

WITNESS is a visual art experience asking the question: What do we witness when we see through the eyes of Black women? The show features work by LA-based Black women and non-binary artists who project their vision of the world, society, community, and themselves through their art. This is an immersive exhibit featuring installations, portraiture, and intimately captured moving and still images across mediums. 

This exhibition explores the intersectional vantage point of the Black femme-identifying artist—inviting the viewer to bear witness to what they may not otherwise see on their own. Bey grew up in The Bahamas (New Providence) and now resides and works in Los Angeles, CA as a visual artist and art educator. Bey’s interdisciplinary artwork is an introspective and social critique of American and Bahamian culture, feminism, generational theory, social media, AfroFuturism, AfroSurrealism, post-colonialism and constructs of race within supremacist systems.

Exhibition ends May 27, 2023.

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Sexypink - Twenty twenty-five has not brought with it flying cars or teleportation. It has given our small orbit of the Caribbean an exciting and promising start to the powerful representations from Artists in this region of all stripe.

One can dig one’s hands into the collective creativity of portraiture heavily costumed in mythology and autobiography. One’s fingers become all pruny with the long lingering over monumental soft sculpture and projected video stills.

Remember these names, Gumbs, Watts, Honeywell and Mirabel.

Sonn Nagai, Phoenix and Pimentel Lins.

Patterson, Thomas, Cozier, Cyrille, Forde, Mondestin, Ashing, Lewis and St.Hilaire.

No matter what part of the world our island bredren settle, they never settle. Like a tropical storm watch, they have come to make waves.

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Sexypink - Barbadian Painter Shari Phoenix asks provocative questions while inverting classical European portraiture.

Sexypink - Shari Phoenix - Peek -a- Boo, I see you.

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Sexypink - Pin-up Rebel Series - Pin - Up Rebel number 13.

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SEXYPINK - Trinidad and Tobago Photographer Abigail Hadeed’s recollections of her photoshoot with Black Stalin. Her curiosity and genuine desire to capture her own culture produced these stunning portraits.

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Abigail Hadeed on Photographing the Stars

“We Can Make it IF We Try” In the Mid 80’s I started photographing traditional mas and the steel bands in and around Port of Spain. I was young, in my early 20’s with a passion and desire to learn and explore Trinidad and it’s culture. 

On my own I began to explore South East POS, Laventille, Belmont and the panyards the traditional mas camps, Minshall, you name it I did it.  

 followed my instinct and allowed things to unfold. At the time I did not have a plan and or know that 3 decades would just fly by and along the way I had and have worked with the Regions best and greatest. I have much to be thankful for, being born at the time i have, the people who let me in, and the spaces and people that fed my soul.

 The Black Stalin was definitely one of those memorable shoots at the studio on Long Circular Road.  Black Stalin circa 1991