LC Polo on my body

Artist: LC
Director: Trinidadian Robert Parris
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Hartford Advocate: West Indian Exultation

West Indian Exultation

Many voices, many images offer an alternate view of the English-speaking Caribbean

By Susan Hood

Photo courtesy Real Art Ways

"Re-Identified III," by O'Neil Lawrence.

Rockstone and Bootheel:
Contempory West Indian Art
Through March 14, 2010, Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford, (860) 232-1006, realartways.org; Gallery hours: Sunday, Tuesday-Thursday, 2-9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 2-10 p.m.

This multimedia exultation of contemporary West Indian Art is seemingly all-inclusive, even over-indulgent. Jamaican-born curators Kristina Newman-Scot and Yona Backer have enthusiastically gathered representative examples of work by 38 artists with black Carib roots — nearly all were born and raised there — ranging in age from fresh-out-of-art-school 20s to mid-50s. The show marks the U.S. debuts of more than half. (Publicity materials list 39, but one artist's piece was held by Jamaican airport authorities for Draconian censorial reasons of their own.).

http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15985

Solitary Alchemist: An intimate study of life and art

By ANDRE BAGOO Monday, December 21 2009

ONE OF the most touching moments in The Solitary Alchemist is its dedication. The film, directed by Mariel Brown, premiered at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival in September, mere days after the death of Brown’s father the influential journalist and poet Wayne Brown. A title card at the end of the film reads: “In loving memory of Wayne Brown...”

It is a fitting end to a film that is about an artist coming to terms with self-doubt over the trajectory of her career and with her own peculiar emotions.

read it all here...

Another chance to visit the Alice Yard Shop

Following the Alice Yard Shop exhibition and sale last Saturday, we've had many requests for a second opportunity to view and purchase artworks from the Shop inventory. Here's your chance: the Alice Yard Shop will open again on Thursday 24 December, from 1.00 to 7.00 pm.

Christmas Eve is an extremely busy time for many people, but if you need to buy an intriguing and unexpected last-minute present for someone--or simply want a break from errands, crowds, and traffic--stop by Alice Yard and take a look at our selection of artists' limited editions and multiples, design objects, and original artworks. Most of these items are modestly priced--you can pick something up for as little as a dollar--and all purchases help support Alice Yard and its programme of events.

Please spread the word--this is Alice Yard's first and only fundraising event for 2009--and if you can't make it to the yard on Thursday, you can still browse a selection of artworks at the new Alice Yard Shop website.

Artists with works in the Alice Yard Shop include Akuzuru, Ashraph, Christopher Cozier, Marlon Darbeau, Michelle Isava, Jaime Lee Loy, Brianna McCarthy, Kavir Mootoo, Nikolai Noel, Suzanne Nunez, Richard Rawlins, Seon Thompson, Rodell Warner, Adam Williams, Robert Young, and 12 the band.

As always, all are invited.

PICTURE OF THE DAY...

Cocoyea Brooms by Marlon Darbeau
The Alice Yard Shop opening Saturday 19th December, 2009

JAMES HACKETT LAUNCHES THE PRINT SHOP

Finally?

Posted by Hackett on December 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment

So here I am having achieved a major milestone, successfully completing this semester and now having over 100 daily consecutive posts at my blog. Over that time I have recieved a number of requests for prints of some of the pieces there and well, I did not have the time to try put together a store and plan it. Well now for Christmas I am going to spend sometime to get this going and hopefully people might be obliged to patronise me and my prints. Spread the word will you and feel free to check the daily posts over at shizzies.com.

In the future I will open up more options for purchasing etc including downloads.

Love and Respect.

James

Picture of the day...

"Lord S'Shamus Haraktet" by Ayodhya Ouditt @ RISD

I am Lord S'Shamus Haraktet,
God-King of The Fire Empire,
of the capital, Khazadram, in the East.

Long before the earth was strong,
the wind could laugh, the water could run...
long before mother and father were as one...
before time was time... there was a fire.

It was the first fire...
one so small that it existed
before space... and yet,
from it was born the cosmos,
and in it... the sun.

The ancients said
"the fire in the sun...
is the fire in your heart...
is the fire in your eye!"

I am the god of the sun.
The Incas called me Inti.
The Egyptians knew me as Re Herekty.
The Hindus called me Dyaus...
and the Greeks said Apollo.

I have many names and many powers.
I am the giver of life and the taker.
I am the beginning and the end.
I am the everything and the nothing.

For four and a half billion years
I have watched your world,
and in an equal number of
days I will end it.

I, the one true god,
the absolute, the impossible...
I shall return you to the heart of the sun,
and you shall have peace.

- Ayodhya Ouditt