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Galleryyuhself - Part 2 begins.

reminder: ARTIST’S TALK - FOREST NOTEBOOKS” BY MARIO LEWIS

Featuring guest speakers: Dr. Chaney C.G. St. Martin, Anna Serrao, Taya Serrao, Natalie Melas, Tao Du Four.

Moderated by: Adele Todd

Date: Wednesday 13th December, 2023.

Time: 7pm - 9pm

Exhibition closes: Wednesday 20th December, 2023.

Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm

*Original works and prints are available for purchase.

FREE ADMISSION - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

For more information please contact:

Tel: +1(868)680-1041, +1(868)622 -1196

Email: medullaartgallery@gmail.com

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Eden's Apple - Interpretation and ire in the works of Stuart Hahn

Medulla Art Gallery featured a talk with the Artist Stuart Hahn on Wednesday eight August twenty twenty-three. It started tentatively and ended boisterously with interviewer Natasha Ramnauth steering the conversation into territory raised by a guest about the carnivalesque. That was provoking enough, but there was a much more niggling issue that caught my attention as Mr Hahn spoke about his work.

As an avid admirer of his prolific collections over the decades I was alerted when yet again I heard him mention that he could not show nudity in public. At prior shows he had said those exact words to the audience.

Stuart Hahn - The Fall of Man

In Jamaica,the Laura Facey bronze sculpture Redemption Song is met with all the respect it deserves in a declared homophonic island. No one is deeming the public work indecent or homocentric. I found myself wondering why and how Mr Hahn has been dealing with this no man’s land quite literally for so many decades?

What does Mr Hahn have to be apologizing and hiding for? Is Stuart Hahn a maverick where nudity and male at that is concerned?

The short answer is no.

Stuart Hahn - The Fall of Man

He is preceded by the likes of Boscoe Holder and Hugh Stollmeyer. It is curious, but not fully necessary to know that those names represent men who were homosexual or bisexual. This is to be included only because of the fact that sexual history has been hard fought particularly in ultra religious spaces like Trinidad and Tobago.

Is Mr Hahn exploiting the form by showing explicit sexual acts? No.

In fact Mr Hahn only uses naked imagery in contexts where they are called for.

But instead of being caught up with his exceptional skills as a draftsman of the anatomy it is easy for the media to continue to hound his use of drawing what I can only call the subversive penis. Vaginas and breasts hold neutral ground.

Meanwhile it seems that the erect, semi-erect and inert penis causes great consternation.

We all reel daily as we read and hear of barbarically cruel murders. Yet, the penis in art is being ‘held’ as too unpalatable for sensitive constitutions.

Is there a connection between crime and the male body?

This may be an absurd question, but Mr Hahn’s work and legacy might hinge on the fact that a sense of being out of touch with the body is an important marker for all of us. An automatic fear or distaste to observe classical art in a caribbeanesque context narrows the lens.

Mr Hahn was born in Nevis of a St. Kittitian mother and Trinbagonian father. Of Caucasian heritage in a mostly brown land, a child of colonialism in San Fernando and a gay man in the Caribbean space during Black Power and Oil Money is dizzying enough. It makes one want to tear off one’s skin.

Nudity and the drawing of skin titillates. It is peeling back layers and finding oneself in private territory. Art has lauded nakedness for centuries, so, to now grapple on an island with what it means - is curious to me particularly when a few years ago Trinidad and Tobago was given the dubious honor of being in the top ten of users of porn sites in the world.

Stuart Hahn - The Murder of Abel

Mr Hahn’s Biblical, Classical Literature, Indian Mythology and local Folkloric pieces do far more than occasionally dabble in nudity. By focusing on the trite, everything that his work demonstrates gets shunted to the side. Mr Hahn’s work connects the complex past with the continuously confusing present. He shows great discipline when drawing and rendering the form with prisma color pencils and pen and ink when paint is so much faster - his almost religious penitence in lauding his characters with wings, togas and ropes of hair - yes there is homo eroticism in the work.

However, homo simply means man. I will not go down the prickly path of Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve. I also will not convince anyone of changing their sensitivities or sensibilities. I write to place Mr Hahn’s work where it needs to be. He is neither a pornographer nor a sensationalist.

That is so clear in societies great love of Derek Walcott's TiJean and his Brothers the children’s book and his innovative approach to the Black Madonna and Child way before it was fashionable to do so. As a white, Caribbean gay man making Art in Trinidad and Tobago and causing debate makes Stuart Hahn’s career an important marker in Art history - one that we all take for granted. We speak fluidly about Impressionism or Abstraction. But what of Stuart Hahn’s drawings? I suggest that as we look at Art in Trinidad and Tobago, we begin to observe what is before our very own eyes:that we respect and honor ours in the same way that we have finally given Pan the attention deserved.

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Sexypink - a closer look at the work of Stuart Hahn

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Observations from the Artist Stuart Hahn

What strange and wonderful times we live in...

At my interview with Newsday there was a major problem choosing accompanying work to show (pictures of myself, roundly objected to but mandatory, it turns out, were far more important than the art actually discussed)... nudity, male nudity especially, (with penises, God forbid!) being absolutely out of the question, so I proposed this piece in all my innocence and the innocence of the little child himself. But no. Not that one either. Infact, no no NO, But Why? Because (and silly me not to know),rolling eyes... PEDOPHILIA!!! I suppose all those literally countless little baby Jesuses running through the whole history of art must also be - well but of course they are! - PEDOPHILIA, and like Michaelangelo's sinfully naked David, should be totally removed, absolutely obliterated from books and education itself lest our children and we adults too be corrupted forever...

Anyway...

The Fall Of Man

From the current exhibition EDEN at Medulla Gallery

Ink on paper.

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Sexypink - A Safe Space The Visual Arts Unit at the UWI Department of Creative and Festival Arts is pleased to partner with Medulla Art Gallery to host a safe space, a selection of works that engage shared ideas of security, comfort and well-being. 

Featuring art and design by final-year students in the following order: Kerron John (self-portrait), Timothy Somai (three pieces) Makeda Julien(series of watercolor paintings) and Shania Warris (soft sculpture)

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                     Save the date | Medulla Gallery upcoming shows

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Kevin Adonis Browne returns to Trinidad for his fourth exhibition, A Sense of Arrival: An Exhibition of Essays, which will feature original work from his forthcoming book of the same name. These visual essays, according to Browne, are “a meditation on the complexities of Caribbean being—a memoir inspired by the precarity of the present.” The exhibition, like the book itself, is principally concerned with the articulation of Blackness as an infinite arrival—always “in the making.” In doing so, Browne attempts to orient the viewer toward new realities and mythologies—what we know, are willing to believe, and are able to imagine about Caribbeanness—as a way of being, knowing, and making (in) the world. He approaches some of our “familiar” Caribbean realities in new ways—“new,” in the experiential sense of getting to know and of coming to be known. This, he notes, is a series composed of the humanistic threads of this region—its metaphysics, rhetoric, poetics, and aesthetics. Browne’s award-winning visual and written work have previously existed at the intersection of photography and creative nonfiction. In A Sense of Arrival, he extends beyond those boundaries, reaching into the three-dimensional with a consideration of objects-as-texts in his attempt to articulate what rests at the heart of the Caribbean story. A Sense of Arrival: An Exhibition of Essays opens on October 20, 2022, at 7:00 pm at Medulla Art Gallery, Port of Spain, and will run until November 14, 2022. In addition to the ongoing exhibition, Browne will conduct a free creative nonfiction workshop on October 22 from 11:00-2:00 pm. Limited to 12 participants. On October 25 at 7:00 pm, Browne will be joined by curator and scholar Dr. Marsha Pearce for a conversation on art-making and identity. This will be accompanied by a reading from A Sense of Arrival. Please visit the EVENTS page at www.kevinadonisbrowne.com/events to RSVP and to read more about the Conversation, and to register for the Workshop. All events, excluding the workshop, are open to the public. Please be mindful that seating is limited, so please REGISTER for the workshop and RSVP for the Conversation & Reading as soon as possible. All COVID-19 protocols will be observed. Kevin Adonis Browne, PhD is a Caribbean American artist, essayist, and theorist of rhetoric and contemporary culture. He is the author of Tropic Tendencies and HIGH MAS: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture, which won the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in 2019. His work has been shown in the US and the UK, and is currently on display in Cologne, Germany. His previous exhibitions in Trinidad include “Seeing Blue” (2014) “High Mas” (2018), and “No Words” (2021). He is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Syracuse University, New York. A Sense of Arrival: An Exhibition of Essays by Kevin Adonis Browne opens at  Medulla Art Gallery on Wednesday 20, October, 2022. Follow @drbrowne on Twitter and Instagram.

Image: Kevin Adonis Browne 2018

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Writing about the latest body of work by Wendy Nanan demanded the time to sit with all that she endeavoured to discuss. Her dioramas create bold and ironic statements about black stereotyping. Post slavery the questions persist, and the answers are still deafening in their silence. Some may even be akin to our Jouvert Carnival Minstrels, black people wearing whiteface interpreting white people in black face as they sing Yankee songs of a bygone era. Is this progressive, oppressive or something in between?

Miss Nanan asks, how have we stayed here? Why do we continue to ape our colonial past and as a subtext, why has it stuck so mercilessly to black people?

There are no Indian, Chinese or Syrian dolls to trot out and hawk to a tourist market among this collection.

Miss Nanan's pieces feature names like, Searching for La Belle Creole, Meanwhile, somewhere down in Pt.Cumana and Let me take you to the Mountaintop. They show us how much the cliche of the female black body has endured. She also delves into the present with Did you get the Pepper Spray, a topical conversation about violent crime and safety debated in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago as recently as the Firearms (Amendment)

 Act No.7 of 2021) In Pepper Spray, two uniformed young girls traverse the tenuous divide, Hansel and Gretel style walking to school. These are not the souvenir dolls of old, these are recently made ones in the same ilk, testing the waters of the female, black body today.

Creating props and settling the viewer inside the narrow yet semi-deep dollhouse spaces slows the viewer down to being with their own thoughts.

In a world where we are deliberately distracted to keep us from feeling disquiet, Miss Nanan's Les Marchandes in the City is an example of that fracture. You can walk from side to side peeking in at these beautifully styled, now problematic creole toys.

These dolls, collected for their nostalgia, are asked to do so much. Can they absolve us of the past?  Wearing doyettes and head ties, their faces gaze vacantly out at us and have lulled many children to sleep with their gentle womanliness. Yet, can we forget?

Miss Nanan's Caribbean Madonna's recalls some of her past works in papier mache, such as the dangling Shiva and pink half shell. However here, within the familiar there stands the disquiet. This piece harks back to the famous engraved etching of 1800, The Voyage of the Sable Venus by Thomas Stothard (British, 1755-1834) where the black female body is romanticized, eroticized, fetishized  and most of all neutralized. She is always an automaton to the viewer.

Miss Nanan goes on to question these experiences with The Help. A Caucasian child pulling on the apron of the Mammy figure in the ideal 1950's kitchen. Mammy is forever unbalanced as a hot drink - never for her - threatens to soil her uniform, keeping her in her place.

Even  Let me take you to the Mountaintop, an attempt at a reprieve to Martin Luther King's 1963 speech on Capitol Hill Washington D.C. finds no purchase.There is no solace from servitude and disrespect here. Our madras coiffe and  douillette creole wearing trio are standing precipitously in a cake topping stance above the ziggurat-like organic shape. Their moment of glory, not assured.

The Land of the Photo-op, the most DIY and flattened, non diorama work is the most child-like of her portrayals. The technique speaks appropriately to pastiche-centric innocence that tourists still seek out. Under the cutout symbolic sun and wonky Trinidad and Tobago lettering, this doll selling sea shells and chac chac a la Tourist Anne appears like another Black Madonna, La Divina Pastora. This time, the revered effigy that is displayed in Siparia, Trinidad every year. She is frozen in time. We may not know why we worship, yet we do.

Miss Nanan deftly tackles as much of the problematic incantations of past and present as she can. This is brave, necessary work and for those who missed this show, much was lost by your absence. Miss Nanan's Art reminds us that constant servitude is all that is required of the black female body. No matter the struggle or accolade the female black body presents, she is always a nicely dressed doll staring out at a future designed to please others.

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Sexypink - Medulla Art Gallery presents

West Indian dolls, a portrayal of blackness.

by WENDY NANAN

NOW SHOWING

(*There won’t be a formal opening but you can visit anytime for the duration of the exhibition)

Exhibition continues until: Friday 29th September, 2023

FREE ADMISSION - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm.

Address: #37 Fitt Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain.

For more information please contact:

Telephone: +1(868)680-1041, +1(868)622 -1196

Email: medullaartgallery@gmail.com

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

The dolls were acquired on travels with my father throughout the Caribbean, from Caracas to Cuba, in the 1990’s. Bought in handicraft shops, made for the tourist trade, I was first intrigued by the political and social implications of how we were representing ourselves in a modern, post colonial society.

Why the use of the Aunt Jemima black face and the exotic and quaint depiction of servitude to appeal to wealthy foreigners? Why the acceptance of racist stereotypes and negative imagery, sourced from American caricatures of black people – Sambo Memorabilia?

But I also collected them because they were beautifully and intricately handmade, showing the signatures of their creators, much like fingerprints on ancient Sumerian pottery. I imagined the women making the dolls, hoping for sales, having to pander to the ingrained racist and sexist views of the buyers. More concerned with everyday survival than perpetuating these prejudices.

I recently saw a Facebook post asking for a photo-op of a coconut vendor with donkey cart. We are still painting pictures of La Belle Creole, with wooden ajoupa houses in forested clearings. In my childhood, Tourist Annie walked the streets of Port of Spain, looking very out of place. How do we see and understand ourselves, descendants of the many mixtures of colonisers, slaves and immigrants? And how have we commercialised this history and imagery into clichés to make it marketable for consumption by outside worlds? Is this the masque of our blackness as island people?

Wendy Nanan 2023

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1955, Wendy Nanan is the first Indo-Trinidadian, and among the first Caribbean women artists to have a long and sustained professional practice. She obtained her BFA at Wolverhampton Polytechnic, England in 1979. Her work is included in many public and private collections, including Trinidad and Tobago’s National Museum. In her practice, Nanan takes on core questions at the heart of historical and contemporary struggles about identity, culture and power in the region. She has produced work that is at once historically and geographically specific to the place she inhabits, and timeless, gently provocative and persistently infused with her feminist politics. While Nanan is deeply respected by peers and critics in the Caribbean, she remains an under-attended-to artist, in part due to her determined locally-situated practice, she has remained in Trinidad since completing art school in 1980, and is famously reclusive, her philosophy being that “it is more important to create the work than to seek an audience for it.”

by Dr. Andil Gosine

Image: Caribbean Madonna, 2023

Artist Bio Text: Dr. Andil Gosine

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**Update: https://newsday.co.tt/2023/09/25/artist-wendy-nanan-explores-post-colonialism-identity-through-dolls/

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Sexypink - DCFA Graduating Degree Class of 2023

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A Sense of Arrival: An Exhibition of Essays continues at Medulla Art Gallery until Nov 14

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One year after its publication, I'm very happy to *finally* bring "Nature's Wild" home to Medulla Art Gallery in TT. 

A moment to reflect in the company of the brilliant Andre Bagoo and Yvonne Bobb-Smith, who will read their companion texts, and to share new artworks completed with Bruce Cayonne, Bev Koski (that's her stunning beadwork on the poster image), amber williams-king and Robert Young, as well as a new presentation of Bernadette Indira Persaud's "Tree of Life." 

Plus, the electrifying Rhoma Akosua Spencer will inaugurate the whole thing. 

Space will be limited to those who have secured (free) tickets only, so please register if you plan to come:https://www.eventbrite.com/.../natures-wild-duets-tickets...

More on "Nature's Wild" here:https://www.dukeupress.edu/natures-wildandwww.andilgosine.com

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Medulla Art Gallery is pleased to invite you to

"EDEN" BY STUART HAHN

OPENING RECEPTION:

Date: Thursday 27th July 2023

Time: 7pm - 9pm

Venue: Medulla Art Gallery

Address: #37 Fitt Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain.

For more information please contact:

Telephone: +1(868)680-1041, +1(868)622-1196

Email: medullaartgallery@gmail.com

Artist’s Talk: Thursday 10th August, 2023 at 7pm-9pm

Exhibition continues until: Tuesday 29th August, 2023

FREE ADMISSION - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm

ABOUT THE SHOW:

The story of Eden has intrigued me since childhood and this exhibition is one of the results of that, undertaken with the greatest reverence to the countless great artists who have indulged in the very same obsession over time immemorial. Philosophically I’ve come away from it with more questions than answers, especially about the god it features, the strange and disturbing notion and concept of Original Sin, what really is this thing called evil… etc etc. How closely it resembles so many other creation stories, and how it also differs from them. The cherubim obviously impressed me, though I could not bring myself to depict them as the monstrous physically deformed creatures described elsewhere.. The sad, blood-soaked story of the first murder, for me, needs much more explanation than its given. The choice of the snake as the embodiment of evil, handmade of Satan… why? Poor womankind, the bringer of the species, its very womb, so demonized… how come, why? This exhibition is the edited version of these ruminations, perhaps there will be another to complete the process, if time allows. There are also two drawings here from another ongoing series, Dante’s Divine Comedy, of the pathetic plight of Paulo and Francesca, also, hopefully, another exhibition.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Stuart Hahn was born in Nevis in 1949 and was educated in Barbados and Trinidad to A level. He began his artistic career in commercial-advertising art before leaving that discipline to become a full time fine artist in his homeland, Trinidad. His exhibition career began in 1984 in Port of Spain, since then he has exhibited internationally, to the present day. He has illustrated local folklore and universal myths and legends, predominantly Greek and Judeo-Christian. His influences have been the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists, Art Nouveau, and early 20th century book illustration, the great Alf Codallo and the beauty of the people and landscape of his island home.

Graphic Design: Agyei Archer

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Sexypink - The UWI Visual Arts Unit has partnered with two venues to host an exhibition of art and design works by students in their final year of the Visual Arts Degree programme. 

The show will be open to the public at both the Art Society of Trinidad and Tobago (ASTT), and Medulla Art Gallery, from April 29 to May 6.

This is the first in-person exhibition by the Visual Arts Unit since the onset of the pandemic. With this in mind, the show is titled “LIVE.” Audiences can enjoy direct interaction with creative works at both venues. The word “live” also suggests that the art and design on display address current, pressing issues in society.

Viewers can expect a range of art forms, from painting and sculpture to video and sound installation.

Art Society of Trinidad and Tobago (ASTT)3-7 St Vincent Ave, Federation Park, POSMon-Sun, 12 noon-6pm

Medulla Art Gallery37 Fitt Street, Woodbrook, POS

Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm

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Sexypink - Medulla Art Gallery EXTENDS the Wendy Nanan show - take the opportunity to see this wonderful body of work.

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Artist’s talk: Andil Gosine with André Bagoo: a tender exchange

Date: Thursday 13th February, 2020 at 7pm-9pm

FREE ADMISSION - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

rêvenir by ANDIL GOSINE

Exhibition duration: Thursday 30th January to Friday 21st February, 2020

Venue: Medulla Art GalleryAddress: #37 Fitt Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain.

Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm.

Contact: 1(868)488-0594 (AG), 1(868)680 1041, 1(868)622 1196 or medullaartgallery@gmail.com

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Andil Gosine grew up in George Village, Tableland, before moving with his family to Canada at the age of 14. He has subsequently lived in the United Kingdom, France and the United States, and is currently Professor of Environmental Art & Justice at York University, Toronto. Dr. Gosine’s scholarship and artistic practice examine imbrications of ecology, desire and migration, and include numerous publications and multimedia projects. His previous exhibitions Deities, Parts I & II showed in New York in 2019, and Coolie Coolie Viens and All the Flowers in Canada in 2018. He is also curator of the forthcoming retrospective exhibition "Wendy Nanan," which will open at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington DC, in March. Dr. Gosine is currently completing revisions on his monograph, Nature's Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean (Duke).

ABOUT THE SHOW:

The title, which merges the French words for “dream,” “to come” and “to return,” invokes the terrain he explores. “rêvenir is a return to place after departure, as much as it is a return to love after heartbreak,” says the artist. Viewing his practice as a gentle provocation, the works are installed behind white, embroidered curtains. “The curtains suggest a peak into my intimate life, and the material reference my grandmothers’ ohrnis (headscarves), which themselves were full of ambivalence. The three pieces rest on moments of connection and disconnection: 1200 matches, no flame expresses frustrations of online dating; the video work Natures: A Guerilla Girl Story, and 24, a series of photo collages capturing the height of infatuation.“I wanted to create the gallery as a space for tender exchange,” says the artist. Thus, in place of an opening, the artist will be present daily throughout the exhibition and available for conversation and interaction with visitors.Alongside the presentation of works, Tender Exchange, a pop-up of selected art catalogues and a few previous works – including his much-celebrated “Cutlass” pin and pendant – will be available for sale or trade (with other artists). (The title is also a playful allusion to the recent exchange of TT$100 tender).

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“REVISITINGS” By Stuart Hahn

In celebration of Gay Pride Month 2019, Medulla Art Gallery is pleased to invite you to Medulla Art Gallery #37 Fitt Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain

 1(868)6801041, 1(868)622 1196 or medullaartgallery@gmail.com

 Mon-Fri  10am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm

Artist's Talk: Thursday 13th June, 2019 at 7pm-9pm

Exhibition continues until: Monday 24th June, 2019

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC / FREE ADMISSION

As always thank you for your continued support of the Visual Arts. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Martin D. Mouttet

MEDULLA

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Stuart Hahn was born in Nevis, lived in Trinidad all his life and began his artistic career as a Graphic Illustrator in the advertising industry during the 1970s. He has illustrated three children’s' books, Derek Walcott's "Ti Jean And His Brothers" being the most acclaimed. He has exhibited internationally and locally since 1984, and his works are represented in collections in Europe, the US, Canada and the Caribbean. He is particularly celebrated for the sensitivity of his ink and colored pencil drawings which draw their inspiration from the mythologies of Greece, India, the Bible and the folklore of Trinidad.

ABOUT THE SHOW:

“Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words, beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.” ― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

The predominance of homosexual eroticism in these pieces is not necessarily a result of personal inclination but the belief that it is part and parcel of everyday sexual - and non sexual - living, a valid contribution to the way the world works and can be seen to work.

The myths and legends that have influenced me in my work, like everything in life except perhaps the love of money, have an undercurrent and are inspired by sex, heterosexual and homosexual. To compartmentalize sexuality like this is to ignore so many other wonderful and terrible variations of it. But perhaps that's another exhibition.

The "Judgment of Paris" caught my attention as a child in books my mother brought back from the San Fernando library, full of the art of the world, Rubens in particular, who painted this first beauty competition numberless times. My attraction and inspiration was obviously profound and indelible. The Biblical story of Saul's unhinged love/hate of David could only, to me, be justified by his sexual jealousy of David and Jonathan's sexual relationship. The Narcissus legend offers an investigation, of course, of narcissism, and, in this series, effeminacy, a much maligned and misunderstood compartment of masculinity on the whole. This aspect of masculinity I also relate to in the "Genderfuck" series, two of which are offered here.

About my “series”, they don’t stop, for me they only go into abeyance. The reasons I named this exhibition “Revisitings”, is a way of saying revisions and re-workings (maybe also self-canabalizings), but also just to keep it at one word: simple, short and uncomplicated.

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                    From the Facebook page of Kevin Adonis Browne

Announcing the opening of A SENSE OF ARRIVAL at Medulla Art Gallery in Trinidad on October 20, 7:00 pm.The exhibition will feature original work from my forthcoming book, A Sense of Arrival. 

Visit kevinadonisbrowne.com for more info and to register for the in-person workshop, conversation, and reading.Looking forward to seeing you there!