#sexypink/Painting in Trinidad and Tobago

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Che Lovelace

SEXYPINK - Che Lovelace’s paintings are at LOFTT for a brief time. Go check them out.

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                            Details of paintings from Jackie Hinkson

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Sexypink - Shastri Maharaj’s Countryside - On now.

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Sexypink - Gran Couva Conversations -  A friend contacted me recently. She was excited to tell me about the group show with the Painters Greer Jones-Woodham, Beverly Fitzwilliams-Harries and Karen De Verteuil. We got into a conversation about the power of female painters and I have promised her that a short essay on the topic is needed. Gran Couva is a beautiful part of Trinidad and I was so sorry to have missed the show, having only seen the invitation on the evening of the day of its closure. I do hope that more information is provided about the works of these ladies and this show in particular.

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Sexypink - Out of the blocks for 2024. What a delight that a book begins the year.

From Dr Marsha Pearce's Facebook page...

I am happy to announce the release of Black Light Void: Dark Visions of the Caribbean. The book is an edited collection of paintings by Trinidadian artist Edward Bowen and six short-story responses to Bowen's work, written by Trinidadian award-winning writers Kevin Jared Hosein, Barbara Jenkins, Sharon Millar, Amílcar Presi Sanatan, Portia Subran and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw.

As Editor, Dr Marsha Pearce states...

With this book project, I ask: What stories lie beyond those experiences lit up by the sun–the light that is a defining feature of the tropics?

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SEXYPINK Reviews: I went for a drive and Never Came Back - Tracey Johnson

(Solo show) LOFTT Gallery Roselino Street Woodbrook

October 6 -20th 2023

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A ditty of Bruce Springsteen and the title of a recently completed Solo show by the prolific Tracey Johnson at Loftt in Woodbrook discusses a restless spirit. Springsteen croons ‘ride, and never went back, Johnson, ‘drive, and Never Came Back’.

Whatever the lyrics Miss Johnson has single handedly shown why going to Art shows matter. Her Hyper Realistic, Expressionistic Abstractions are thought provoking masterful works. 

Her technical skills are so on point that as you stand next to her girl smiling or red devil, it takes a few seconds for ones thoughts to wrap around the fact that these ARE NOT photographs.

Even more so, her decision to deliberately toy with reality by blurring, marking and splattering heightens the delightful drama on the canvases.

For example her egg drop sun and black drizzle over the La Basse image could be gimmicky in any other hands.

Miss Johnson triumphs here by instinctively being in synch with every single brush stroke she renders. She gives just enough shift from Realism to Fantasy as can be seen in Maracas beach where her sun is a child’s playful scrawl.

What I appreciate most about I went for a drive and Never Came Back is its unexpected candor on life in the tropical paradise that is Trinidad and Tobago.

Overlaying frenetic markings on captured moments, defining the happenstance of one’s input like a diary or a witness to the mundane (beauty) likened to the simplicity of  driving on a dark night - is all done with an ease, an exceptional understanding of painting. It is a comprehension fraught with the discipline of getting out of the way and letting the energy come forward as she does - not simple or easy at all.

Everybody has a hungry heart, Springsteen sings and Miss Johnson’s heart beats for us in her work. One of the most impactful shows of 2023 so far. 

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Sexypink - Tessa Alexander Sloane Seale - Carnival work in Trinidad and Tobago-2023

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Statement from Tessa herself ....

Carnival comes home and we celebrate 60yrs of Panorama! 

Who ready...Living Ritual series 2023. 

Each watercolour and collage pan piece is 11x14" (28x35.6cm) but can be combined to form a larger piece as shown.

This series incorporates my research on ancestral art techniques and textiles acknowledging the contributions of those who against all odds gifted us with our carnival culture.

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                            From the Facebook page of Jal Khan  

Completed mural at the National Library Port of Spain Trinidad West Indies. 

A gift from the people of Columbia. Photography by Jal Khan

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Sexypink - Che Lovelace - Trinidad and Tobago

& from his Facebook page...Very very excited! My first full scale New York gallery exhibition opens one week from now on Thursday 9th March at the Nicola Vassell Gallery in Chelsea.

The exhibition brings together paintings, some of which I’ve been working on for several years, all focused around the body and water.

Our relationship with water…the sea, rivers etc. here in the Caribbean is a complex one, and I have tried to translate through my own experiences what that relationship feels and looks like.

Folks in the New York area do come by and say hi at the opening (6-8pm) or check out the show when you have time…it runs until April 15th

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                              Y Art Gallery Trinidad and Tobago 

Jana Zatvarnická in Studio. “My research traces the human history, heritage, and non-self-reflective anthropological framing. In my artistic process, I intend to capture the progress of my research on re-learning and re-archiving our "apparent " self-evidence and spiritual-historical processes in society by utilizing painting and installation as a medium. By using different tools and materials and embedding them into the chosen space I am creating “individual" mythology. In doing so I am leaving Traces. Traces of my body, Traces of spirits, Traces of gesture and Traces of touch.” - Jana Zatvarnická

The exhibition, Heat waves, opens July 16th.

 Part I  features:Jana Zatvarnicka (b.1988) Slovakia, lives and works in Düsseldorf

Melissa Miller .Kimme Museum. Bethel, Tobago. 2022. 

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                   Cynthia McLean  11 Sept 1941 - 13 Aug 2022 

From the Facebook page of Savanna Trinidad some beautiful writing for  beautiful person.

We have lost a fine artist.  The beauty, vibrancy and imagination in Cynthia’s paintings made her collectors see and feel her warmth, love and spontaneity for what she did best. Her creations varied from different techniques using tools and each masterpiece portrays exceptional colour, rhythm and mood.   

Cynthia was so proud of her Carnival subjects especially her pan paintings, landscapes  , the olden days of cane farming and cocoa houses , seascapes of Mayaro and Blanchisseuse and old humble homes. 

These works are hung at the Central Bank, the National Museum , churches and private collections locally and internationally.   Cynthia, I will always remember you as a radiant spirit , so warm , forever hopeful , humble and always smiling and passionate about each new creation. Your paintings will forever stand out on our walls. 

You have left the art world a far more interesting place. Your work shines outright and your creativity shows us that being different is just simply awesome !

 “ Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing “ Marc Chagall.

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         Che Lovelace - a cluster of hummingbirds over water lilies.

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Brianna McCarthy - Me and my oyster knife - You cut your teeth on my ego.

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“No Man Is An Island” an exhibition of recent works  by Bianca  Peake  @p3ake ART EXHIBITION OPENING FRIDAY 27th MAY 2022  from 6pm - 9pmExhibition continues until Saturday 11th June 2022.  

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                      From the Facebook page of Brian Ashing

Hi everyone. Sharing some of my recent portrait paintings. Feel free to contact me or share this post with someone you think may be interested in commissioning a portrait of themselves or a loved one. You can always reach me at 1-868-779-0005 (telephone or WhatsApp) or brianashingart@gmail.com 

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                    Brianna Mc Carthy - Through to the surface