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"Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions"
Art Museum of the Americas
Washington, DC
January 21, 2011 - March 10, 2011
Featuring work by Bahamian Artists
John Cox, Blue Curry, Kishan Munroe, and Heino Schmid
Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions
The Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) announces the opening of Wrestling
with the Image: Caribbean Interventions, an exhibition of contemporary
art from twelve Caribbean countries. Featuring work by artists from the
Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts
and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and
Trinidad and Tobago, the exhibition is curated by artist and curator
Christopher Cozier and art historian Tatiana Flores.
Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions presents works in a
variety of media, including photography, video, painting, graphic arts,
sculpture, and installation. The scope of the objects demonstrates how
the region’s contemporary artists are confronting stereotypes about the
Caribbean without denying their own surroundings or rejecting the worlds
in which they operate. Through investigations on history, tourism,
globalization, popular culture, and gender, these artists urge us to
reconsider our own expectations on how a Caribbean image should look.
Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions includes work by John
Cox, Blue Curry, Kishan Munroe, Heino Schmid, (The Bahamas); Ewan
Atkinson, Joscelyn Gardner, Sheena Rose, Tonya Wiles (Barbados);
Santiago Cal (Belize); Pauline Marcelle (Dominica); Roshini Kempadoo,
Hew Locke (Guyana); Maksaens Denis, Jean‐Ulrick Désert, Barbara
Prézeau‐Stephenson (Haiti); Charles Campbell, Keisha Costello, Marlon
James, Ebony Patterson, Oneika Russell, Phillip Thomas (Jamaica); Terry
Boddie (Saint Kitts and Nevis); Nadia Huggins, (Saint Lucia); Holly
Bynoe, (Saint Vincent and the Grenadindes); Sri Irodikromo, Patricia
Kaersenhout, Marcel Pinas, Dhiradj Ramsamoedj, (Suriname); Nicole Awai,
La Vaughn Belle, Marlon Griffith, Jaime Lee Loy, Richard Fung, Abigail
Hadeed, Nikolai Noel, Rodell Warner, and Natalie Wood (Trinidad and
Tobago).
Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions forms part of the
About Change emerging artists’ program, an initiative of the World Bank
in partnership with the Inter‐American Development Bank, the OAS, and
the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. About Change is a series
of juried exhibitions of contemporary art from Latin America and the
Caribbean that will take place throughout 2011 and 2012 at different
venues in Washington, D.C., including the World Bank, the Art Museum of
the Americas, and the galleries of the Inter‐American Development Bank.
It has been organized by the World Bank Art Program under the auspices
of the World Bank Vice Presidency for Latin America and the Caribbean
Region.
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