"From Concrete to Canvas"

Former vagrant/ mural (so-called graffiti) artist Clinton Cummings shares the heart-rending, painful and ultimately inspiring story of his challenging journey from the desolate depths of addiction, homelessness, crime and violence towards a clean, purpose-driven, dedicated life of wonder, beauty and hope, on the continuing road to fulfilling his dreams, through this, his first ever official exhibition of his latest works since that life-changing moment less than one year ago when he began to turn his life around.

The exhibit takes place in the Foyer of the Queen's Hall Auditorium from this Thursday to Sunday. Caribbean School of Dance has their annual "Metamorphisis" Dance concert on these days - one of the organisers, Nancy Herrera, has graciously arranged for Clinton's paintings to be displayed during this period. The exhibition will be open to patrons and non-patrons of the dance show.

Marlon Darbeau gives us "SHADE"

Marlon Darbeau comments:

It finally became a reality.

I have been working on a proposed set design for Mount Irvine Bay Hotel And Golf Club- JAZZ ON THE BEACH 2010 for about 3 months and this weekend things materialized.


Last year I noticed people stayed far away from the stage as there wasn't any shaded area close enough. Working with the idea "SHADE"... this lead to the design of a canopy that felt like the sky came closer. It was both aesthetically appropriate and functional as this year people actually got to lay or sit in the shade near the stage.

read it all here

Proximities continues Thursday & Friday @ Alice Yard.

Still from La Mala (2008), by Sandra Vivas: part of Alice Yard's Proximities Programme.

http://aliceyard.blogspot.com/2010/04/proximities.html

Proximities is a programme of five artists' videos posing questions about family and domesticity, intimacy and publicity, anxieties and appetites. Curated by artist Christopher Cozier, Proximities explores the medium of video and its relations with performance, spontaneity, and self-revelation. The programme opens on Thursday 22 April at 8.00 pm, at Alice Yard, and runs for four nights over two weeks. See the detailed schedule below.

Cozier writes:

“I experienced most of these works in various exhibitions or while travelling between 2007 and 2008, and one or two were sent to me. They had an impact on me and lived with me because of their relatively simple and/or efficient use of video, and because the expression and/or investigation of intimacy — the use of self as subject — the personal and its relation to the public space, especially in the anglophone Caribbean — are concerns that are rarely directly visualised.

“Also, Trinidad is seven miles off the coast of the South American continent. Most of these works come from or engage the Latin American world — a space, history, and sensibility we share but also rarely engage.”

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The programme includes:

= Ways of Making Love in the US (2006), by Diana-Sofia Estrada
= Que Te Vaya Bonito (2007), by Ivan Monforte
= La Mala (2008), by Sandra Vivas
= Mulatta/Mestiza (2007), by Yvette Mattern
= Los Diarios de Porcelana (2003), by La Vaughan Belle

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Schedule

Thursday 29 April, 2010, 8-10 pm
Mulatta/Mestiza
Los Diarios de Porcelana

Friday 30 April, 2010, 8-10 pm
Ways of Making Love in the US
Que Te Vaya Bonito
La Mala

The videos will be installed in various spaces at Alice Yard, and will play simultaneously and continuously throughout each evening.

For more information about the artists, visit the Alice Yard website.

EROTIC ARTWEEK 2010 IS A GO

Size Matters

Erotic Art week is a unique annual art festival that was conceived by a collective of visual, graphic and performing artists living in Trinidad & Tobago. 2010 will be the second year of the Caribbean's first Erotic Art Week which will run under the theme "Wider". Expanding on last year's theme "Open", the EAW committee is aiming to make the event bigger and better.

The committee is Choreographer, Dave Williams; Soft Box Gallery Curator, Nisha Hosein; Artist Christian Alexis; Architect Terry Smith; Photographer Rodell Warner; Writer Darryn Boodan; and Designers Richard Rawlins and Marlon Darbeau.

Check out the blog here: http://eroticartweektt.blogspot.com/

Proximities continues today @ Alice Yard.

Still from Ways of Making Love in US (2006), by Diana-Sofia Estrada; part of Alice Yard's Proximities programme, April 2010.

http://aliceyard.blogspot.com/2010/04/proximities.html

Proximities is a programme of five artists' videos posing questions about family and domesticity, intimacy and publicity, anxieties and appetites. Curated by artist Christopher Cozier, Proximities explores the medium of video and its relations with performance, spontaneity, and self-revelation. The programme opens on Thursday 22 April at 8.00 pm, at Alice Yard, and runs for four nights over two weeks. See the detailed schedule below.

Cozier writes:

“I experienced most of these works in various exhibitions or while travelling between 2007 and 2008, and one or two were sent to me. They had an impact on me and lived with me because of their relatively simple and/or efficient use of video, and because the expression and/or investigation of intimacy — the use of self as subject — the personal and its relation to the public space, especially in the anglophone Caribbean — are concerns that are rarely directly visualised.

“Also, Trinidad is seven miles off the coast of the South American continent. Most of these works come from or engage the Latin American world — a space, history, and sensibility we share but also rarely engage.”

===

The programme includes:

= Ways of Making Love in the US (2006), by Diana-Sofia Estrada
= Que Te Vaya Bonito (2007), by Ivan Monforte
= La Mala (2008), by Sandra Vivas
= Mulatta/Mestiza (2007), by Yvette Mattern
= Los Diarios de Porcelana (2003), by La Vaughan Belle

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Schedule

Thursday 22 April, 2010, 8-10 pm
Ways of Making Love in the US
Que Te Vaya Bonito
La Mala

Friday 23 April, 2010, 8-10 pm
Mulatta/Mestiza
Los Diarios de Porcelana

Thursday 29 April, 2010, 8-10 pm
Mulatta/Mestiza
Los Diarios de Porcelana

Friday 30 April, 2010, 8-10 pm
Ways of Making Love in the US
Que Te Vaya Bonito
La Mala

The videos will be installed in various spaces at Alice Yard, and will play simultaneously and continuously throughout each evening.

For more information about the artists, visit the Alice Yard website.

ROCKSTONE & BOOTHEEL 05 ONLINE NOW

This issue of the Rockstone & Bootheel Magazine brings the 5 issue series to an end. All past issues can be downloaded at the page below:

http://www.artzpub.com/alt/rockstoneandbootheel/index.html

Download the current issue 5 here: http://www.artzpub.com/alt/rockstoneandbootheel/pdf/rockstoneemagVOL5.pdf

This issue features the work of Sonya Clark, Annalee Davis, Zachary Fabri, Christopher Irons, Leasho Johnson, Wendell McShine, Karyn Olivier, Omari Ra and Oneika Russell

Rockstone & Bootheel curated by Kristina Newman-Scott and Yona Backer, includes works of 39 artists from the West Indies and the diaspora, focusing on artists from the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago.

ABOUT REAL ART WAYS
Real Art Ways is one of the leading contemporary arts organizations in the United States, with a record of linking artists, innovation and community. Programs include visual arts, with exhibitions, public art projects, and artist presentations; cinema, with independent and international films 7 nights a week; music; performance; literary events; community and educational programming.

12 the band at NuBlu, Manhattan, NY (video)

JW & BLAZE animated tribute by Ansar Sattar

Rockstone & Bootheel issue 4 Online now!!!

Click here to download: http://www.artzpub.com/alt/rockstoneandbootheel/pdf/rockstoneemagVOL4.pdf

This issue features the work of artists: Ewan Atkinson, Renee Cox, Blue Curry, Makandal Dada, Ras Kassa, Jayson Keeling, O’Neil Lawrence, Phillip Thomas and Dave Williams

Rockstone & Bootheel curated by Kristina Newman-Scott and Yona Backer, includes works of 39 artists from the West Indies and the diaspora, focusing on artists from the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago.

ABOUT REAL ART WAYS
Real Art Ways is one of the leading contemporary arts organizations in the United States, with a record of linking artists, innovation and community. Programs include visual arts, with exhibitions, public art projects, and artist presentations; cinema, with independent and international films 7 nights a week; music; performance; literary events; community and educational programming.

Draconian Switch 11 PARAMARIBO SPAN special issue online now.

Click here to download the issue http://www.artzpub.com/alt/pdf/drsw11.pdf This issue features streaming video so be sure to view it using a live internet connection and with adobe acrobat viewer.

This 11th issue of Draconian Switch features Paramaribo SPAN. The show is a conversation about contemporary art and visual culture in Suriname, about art practice in a particular location at a
particular time. The project has three separate but interconnected platforms: an exhibition, which opened in Paramaribo in February 2010; a book published in three editions (Dutch, English, Portuguese); and a blog, which is at once a journal, an archive, and an independent creative undertaking. The project is, in part, a culmination of the ArtRoPa initiative, a four-year series of exchanges between artists based in Paramaribo and Rotterdam, intended to promote creative dialogue between these very different locations which are nonetheless linked by elements of history, culture, and language.

This Draconian Switch impression is at the invitation of the curators, Christopher Cozier and Thomas Meijer zu Schlochtern. This issue’s cover features letters from a current work entitled Suriname alphabet (see below) utilizing letterforms found around the capital.