Month: January 2012

As the new director of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB), Amanda Coulson plans to stimulate a market for Bahamian art home and abroad. With 20 years of management experience, Ms Coulson said she plans to use her expertise and her networks to expose Bahamian art to the global marketplace.

It’s not hard to miss when zooming by in cars, but tucked away into the side of the slope at #25 Cumberland Street of downtown Nassau in the midst of abandoned and dilapidated structures is the newly renovated Hillside House.

Once destroyed by fire and abandoned itself, the structure has been given new life by Bahamian artist Antonius Roberts as the Antonius Roberts studio and gallery space.

Nearly a year has gone since master Bahamian artist, architect and Junkanooer Jackson Burnside has passed away, yet his legacy lives on. In the world of Junkanoo, Jackson received his due in a dazzling tribute on Boxing Day morning last year by One Family – the group he was pivotal in starting and directing.

“As We Knew Him: One Family’s Tribute to Jackson Burnside Boxing Day Parade 2011” opens at The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas on Friday, February 3 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and continues for six weeks.

The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas (NAGB) has appointed John Cox as their new Chief Curator. Cox has been a major part of the Bahamian art scene for the past 20 years and has played a significant role in redefining art in the Bahamas.

Into the Mix opens on Feb 4th-April 14th, the opening reception will be held on February 3rd from 5-10 pm at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft.

Participating artists include Janine Antoni, Christopher Cozier, Blue Curry, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Marlon Griffith, Sofia Maldonado, Wendy Nanan, Ebony G. Patterson, Sheena Rose, and Heino Schmid.

Emerging visual artists had the opportunity to showcase their work alongside veteran artist Kendal Hanna at the National Art Gallery’s one night only All-Star Amateur Exhibition.

The artists who vied to participate in the exhibit were asked to create work that reflected Kendal Hanna’s style. They all drew inspiration from Hanna’s retrospective exhibition titled “Happy Birthday To Me”.

Thursday, January 26, 2012
7:00pm at Popopstudios

The Creators is a 2011 South African documentary film produced and directed by Laura Gamse which interweaves the lives of six diverse South African artists. Step into their lives as they sculpt South Africa’s future from the fragments of a tumultuous past.

As the name suggests, Beadle’s pieces have a connection with nature — the material he utilized for this body of work is nothing more than wood: plywood, jasmine vines and found or salvaged dead wood.

Such a space seems to be a tribute of sorts to the simplicity of nature, for Beadle allowed these pieces to speak for themselves in many ways, only serving to highlight their natural lines — wood grain or rings — with certain deliberate applications of color.