Year: 2012

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.

“It’s the end of a beginning of a new chapter” said Kendal as he pondered the words for his speech tonight at the closing of his retrospective exhibition “Happy Birthday to Me”.

It’s a new era for the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB). With a new staff and new director Amanda Coulson at the helm, NAGB will take an exciting step in a new direction – establishing itself as a national institution in the eyes of the globe.

“Culture needs to be a dialogue between nations, and while we should protect our own cultural heritage, it is totally valid to have conversations,” she says. “I would like to see international art coming down here and Bahamians making a splash internationally.”

Friday, January 20 is the last night to catch “Happy Birthday To Me”, the retrospective of master Bahamian abstract impressionist, Kendal Hanna. The show covers his 75 years of life and his artistic career with 143 paintings.

Bahamian Artist and filmmaker Tyler Johnston presented a sculpture to the Governor General. The sculpture had been made by his grandfather – internationally known sculptor Randolph Johnston – in the only bronze casting foundry in the Bahamas.