Island Art & Framing’s “Colour My Christmas” will feature new art from a plethora of artists, as well as furniture and international craft options. The event happens from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, December 9, at 26 Earls Court (Kingston 8).
Continue reading...8. December 2011
The Healing Power Of Art Exhibition opens on December 8 (5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.) at Eden Gardens, 39 Lady Musgrave Road, Kingston 5. It will continue on Friday, December 9 (2 p.m. to 7 p.m.), and will feature work by E. McAnuff, Carol Watson and others.
Continue reading...3. December 2011
emerging & classic. handpicked. jamaican inspired. hidden gem.uncommon experience. These are some of the words used by its curators to describe Conversation Piece, a Jamaican art experience with a difference. Curated by Aiesha Panton of Pussbackfoot, and Stephanie Campbell of HalfWayTree Roots, Conversation Piece is a curated retail experience series that highlights select emerging & [...]
Continue reading...25. September 2011
Young artist rtist Andy Ballentine is marking his 10th year as a professional artist, with what he has said is his “most varied and best ever” exhibition. The exhibition opened at the Red Bones Blues Café Gallery at September 23, and continues to October 7. It features 30 works in watercolour, oil, pastel and acrylic, [...]
Continue reading...11. June 2011
Today’s Jamaica Observer newspaper carries and update on and photos from Gerard Hanson’s Fashioned Realities exhibition. Under The Dryer visited The Mutual Gallery & Art Centre Thursday last for the opening of ‘Fashioned Realities’ — a compilation of ‘photo paintings’ — ie photographs printed on canvas and reworked with acrylic paints — by British-Jamaican artist [...]
Continue reading...9. June 2011
Gerard Hanson’s ‘Fashioned Realities’ exhibition opened on June 2 at the Mutual Gallery & Art Centre. Items on display there tell the story of how people live and work downtown, in the countryside, and how they fashion their lives in today’s world. The exhibit ends on July 1. For more information, please call 929-4302.
Continue reading...23. May 2011
The community spirit is still alive and well in the town of Treasure Beach, as its members have come together to stage the Treasure Beach Bread Basket Festival on May 27, 28 and 29, 2011. Offering a smorgasbord of cultural, sporting, music, literary and visual art events at various locations, the Treasure Beach Bread Basket [...]
Continue reading...26. April 2011
Laura Facey’s provocative Body and Blood of Christ, is on view through mid-June 2011, at the Foyer Gallery of the PanCaribbean Building, 60 Knutsford Boulevard, New Kingston. The Body and Blood of Christ is a 10-foot-high styrofoam sculpture of a nude male torso, with a chest wound (the stigmata) which apparently represents the piercing of [...]
Continue reading...26. April 2011
Following an almost 10 year absence, Alexander Cooper and Stafford Schliefer have combined their talent: Alexander Cooper, well known for his love of displaying the richness and vibrancy of Jamaican life, its people and moments in everyday life, has developed similar themes in this exhibition, but has reduced his realism to its components of line [...]
Continue reading...25. April 2011
On Sunday, April 10, 2011, the inaugural exhibition of the Guy McIntosh Donation opened at the National Gallery of Jamaica, featuring more than 80 works of art by Jamaican and other artists. The works of art were recently donated to the National Gallery by noted art dealer and collector, Guy McIntosh, who is also the [...]
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8. December 2011
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