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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Keith “Uhuru” Reece

June 2, 2017, 2:12 pm
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Keith “Uhuru” Reece – Ancestral Mask (2017)

The Jamaica Biennial 2017 at the National Gallery of Jamaica has been extended until June 10. We continue our short features on the participating artists:

Keith “Uhuru” Reece was born in 1940, in Trelawny, Jamaica. The sculptural ceramicist Uhuru is essentially a self-taught artist. He pursued part-time studies at Jamaica School of Art (now the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts) and studied briefly at the Art Students League, New York. He has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions locally and in the USA and Spain. Uhuru has the ability to manipulate clay and colour in unconventional ways, producing a diverse range of subjects primarily with a strong emphasis on African culture. He lives and works in St Catherine, Jamaica.

Keith “Uhuru” Reece – Fertility Mask (2017)


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Norma Rodney Harrack

June 5, 2017, 3:00 pm
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Norma Rodney Harrack – Lidded form with Peacock Glaze and Brush Drawing (2013)

 

The Jamaica Biennial 2017 is now in its final days, after the main exhibition at the National Gallery of Jamaica in Downtown Kingston was extended to June 10.

Norma Rodney Harrack was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Harrack was educated at the University of the West Indies (MA) and the Jamaica School of Art (now the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts). She has exhibited extensively in Jamaica, Europe, Asia and the USA. Among her many accolades, was the Silver Musgrave Medal she was awarded in 1993 for contributions to the field of pottery and ceramics. In 1999, Rodney Harrack was elected a member of the International Academy of Ceramics and in 2002 was awarded the Aaron Matalon Award for her entry in the 2002 National Biennial. She lives in St Andrew, Jamaica.

 

Norma Rodney Harrack – Shino-glazed Form with Geometric Incised Design (2013)

 


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Judith Salmon

June 13, 2017, 2:11 pm
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The Jamaica Biennial 2017 closed on June 10, after a two week extension, but we continue to build our online archive on the Biennial with features of the artists who were included in the exhibition.

Judith Salmon was born in 1952, in Kingston, Jamaica. She holds a Graduate certificate in Museum Studies from the University of South Florida; an MFA from Johnson State University, Johnson, Vermont; and a BA in Liberal Arts from Norwich University, Vermont, USA. She also attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, USA. She has exhibited widely in Jamaica, the USA, Canada, Cuba and Puerto Rico and is represented in public and private collections, including the collection of the National Gallery of Jamaica. The dynamics of memory and the resonance of materials are at the heart of her work in installation, assemblage and other mixed media. Her work was recently featured in the National Gallery of Jamaica’s Explorations 3: Seven Women Artists (2015) exhibition. She lives in Kingston, Jamaica.


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Storm Saulter

June 14, 2017, 5:00 pm
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Storm Saulter – The World is Yours (2016)

We continue to share our archives on the Jamaica Biennial 2017, which closed recently.

Storm Saulter was born in 1983, in Westmoreland, Jamaica. Saulter attended the Los Angeles Film School, graduating in 2001. He is a filmmaker, photographer, visual artist and the writer and director of the award-winning feature film Better Mus’ Come (2010). In 2011, he was awarded the Gleaner Honour Award in Entertainment as well as the Viewers’ Choice Award for Best Feature Film at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. He was named one of the PSOJ 50 under 50 business leaders shaping Jamaica’s future. Saulter is co-founder of New Caribbean Cinema collective, a group of young Caribbean filmmakers. His experimental films have been exhibited at the British Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the National Gallery of Jamaica. His photography has been published in Rolling Stone magazine, FADER, and Billboard magazine, to name a few. He is currently in post production on his 2nd feature film Sprinter. Saulter lives in St Andrew, Jamaica and Los Angeles, California.

Storm Saulter – Soldiers, Money Ears, The World is Yours (2016, triptych)


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Stafford Schliefer

June 15, 2017, 2:24 pm
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Stafford Schliefer – Influx (2017)

Here is another feature from our Jamaica Biennial 2017 archives:

Stafford Schliefer was born in 1939, in Kingston, Jamaica. Schliefer is a self-taught artist who has been exhibiting locally and internationally since 1969. His recent exhibitions include New Works by the Masters Alexander Cooper and Stafford Schliefer (2011) at the Mutual Gallery and Art Center and the Jamaica Biennial 2014 at the National Gallery of Jamaica. Schliefer’s art is thematically mixed and often satirical in intent, including erotica, cultural traditions and sociopolitical themes. His works are executed in various paint and drawing media, using a stylistic fusion of figuration and abstract expressionism characterized by an exuberant use of colour and motion with gestural brushwork. He lives in Kingston, Jamaica.

 

Stafford Schliefer – Busta Backbone (2017)


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Phillip Supersad

June 20, 2017, 11:25 am
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Phillip Supersad – Fragment 1 (2017)

The Jamaica Biennial 2017 has now closed but we continue to post features on the participating artists.

Phillip Supersad was born in 1957, in Manchester, Jamaica. Supersad was educated at the Jamaica School of Art (now the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts), where he has taught for some 30 years. His ceramic work is well represented in local public and private collections and he has exhibited widely both locally and internationally. His work ranges from functional ceramics to representational sculptural pieces that depict female strength and male-female relationships. Stylistically and thematically, his work draws from his ancestral cultures in Africa and India. In 2007 he was awarded the Silver Musgrave Medal. He is also an accomplished drummer and the lead in the drum band Akwaba. Supersad lives in Kingston, Jamaica.

Phillip Supersad – Fragment 2 (2017)


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Oneika Russell

June 5, 2017, 3:19 pm
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Oneika Russell – A Bit of What You Fancy (2017, video still)

On view until June 10 in the Jamaica Biennial 2017 at the National Gallery of Jamaica:

Oneika Russell was born in 1980, in St Andrew, Jamaica. She has a diploma in 2003 from the Edna Manley College of the Visual & Performing Arts, and an MA in Interactive Media from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has recently completed her PhD in Art, concentrated in Media, Film & Video Art at Kyoto Seika University, Japan. She was a Commonwealth Foundation Arts & Craft Awardee and in 2003, she was the recipient of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts Purchase Award. Russell has participated in many local and international exhibitions, and has been a regular exhibitor at the National Gallery of Jamaica, most recently in the Jamaica Biennial 2014 and Digital (2016). She works in a variety of physical and digital media and says that “an interest in hand-craft and technological meeting points in service of explorations of history, culture and social narratives has always informed my work.” She is currently a lecturer in the Fine Art and Visual Communication Departments at the Edna Manley College. She lives in Kingston, Jamaica.

Oneika Russell – Antilles for the Antilleans: Saltwater (2017)


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Jasmine Thomas-Girvan

June 22, 2017, 8:22 am
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Jasmine Thomas-Girvan -Parallel Realities, Dwelling I’m The Heartland of My People (2016), installation (detail)

Jasmine Thomas-Girvan was the recipient of the Aaron Matalon Award in the recently closed Jamaica Biennial 2017. Her two installations were on view at Devon House.

Jasmine Thomas-Girvan was born in 1961, in St Andrew, Jamaica. Thomas-Girvan attended the Parsons School of Design in New York, where she received a BFA in Jewellery and Textile Design. While she is still best known as a jeweller, Jasmine’s recent work has moved into the realm of larger mixed media sculpture and installations that evoke poetically the epic histories of the Caribbean. Thomas-Girvan has exhibited in the USA, Jamaica, Trinidad, Venezuela and Mexico. Her awards include the Tiffany Award for Excellence at Parsons, the Prime Minister of Jamaica’s Certificate of Recognition, the Commonwealth Foundation Arts award in 1996, the Aaron Matalon Award for her contribution to the NGJ’s 2012 National Biennial, and the 2014 Silver Musgrave Medal of the Institute of Jamaica. Thomas-Girvan lives in Maraval, Trinidad.

 

Jasmine Thomas-Girvan – The Real Princess (2016), installation (detail)


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Phillip Thomas

June 22, 2017, 11:34 am
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Phillip Thomas – High-Sis in the Garden of Heathen (2017)

Here is another feature from our Jamaica Biennial 2017 archives:

Phillip Thomas was born in 1980, in Kingston, Jamaica. Thomas received his BFA in Painting in 2003 from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts and received the Albert Huie award for Painting at the end of his studies there. He later earned his MFA at the New York Academy of Art. Phillip Thomas has exhibited extensively locally and internationally and is represented in major collections. His awards include the Bronze Musgrave Medal for excellence in art in 2014, the Public Prize in the 2006 SuperPlus Under 40 Artist of the Year competition and the Aaron Matalon Award in the 2008 National Biennial. In his oil paintings and mixed-media works, artist Phillip Thomas combines the imagery and traditions of the Old Masters with contemporary textures and patterns to create a new iconography. As he puts it, “You want a way to lure people into the image, and then it unfolds itself, like a very slow car crash. I try in many ways to present the audience to themselves.” Thomas lives in Kingston, Jamaica.

Phillip Thomas – High-Sis in the Garden of Heathen (2017, detail of work in progress)


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Heather Sutherland Wade

June 23, 2017, 11:48 am
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Heather Sutherland Wade – White Tiger Lily (n.d.)

We continue to post short features on the participating artists from our Jamaica Biennial 2017 archives:

Heather Sutherland Wade was born in 1948, in Manchester, Jamaica. Sutherland-Wade attended the Alberta College of Art in Canada. A graphic designer and a fine artist, she has been exhibiting extensively since the 1970s in Jamaica, Canada, Barbados and China. Sutherland-Wade states that her motivation to paint comes from the beauty of God’s creation around her, which she captures in patterned, colourful semi-abstracts. She lives in St Andrew, Jamaica.

 

Heather Sutherland Wade – Calm (n.d.)


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Raymond Watson

June 23, 2017, 2:48 pm
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Raymond Watson – Roots of Rebellion (2017)

The Jamaica Biennial 2017 closed on June 10, after having been extended for two weeks. We continue publishing items from our archives on the artists and works in the exhibition with this feature:

Raymond Watson was born in 1958, in London, England. Watson attended the Jamaica School of Art, attaining a Diploma in Sculpture in 1981, and presently teaches there. He has exhibited his sculptures as well as executed public commissions locally and overseas, and has participated in several exhibitions at the National Gallery of Jamaica, including the National Biennial in 2012. In 2007, he was inducted in the Hall of Fame of the Caribbean Foundation for the Arts. He lives in St Andrew, Jamaica.


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Donnette Zacca

June 24, 2017, 6:05 am
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Donnette Zacca – Empty Promises (n.d.) – left panel

Here is the final post in our series on the invited artists in the recently closed Jamaica Biennial 2017:

Donnette Zacca was born in 1957, in St James, Jamaica. Zacca attended the Jamaica School of Art, majoring in Graphic Design and Art Education. She also attended the Maryland Institute College of Art where she attained her MFA in 2004. She has exhibited extensively locally and overseas and has received gold, silver and bronze medals in the JCDC’s National Visual Arts Competition and Exhibition. Zacca lectured in photography at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts and regularly contributes to publications, such as Small Axe, The Best of Skywritings, and the Jamaica Observer. She lives in Kingston, Jamaica.

 

Donnette Zacca – Empty Promises (n.d.) – right panel


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Deborah Anzinger

June 24, 2017, 1:11 pm
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This is the first of what will be our final series of posts on the Jamaica Biennial 2017, on the juried artists in the exhibition. The juried section of the 2017 Biennial was selected by two international judges, Amanda Coulson (Bahamas) and Christopher Cozier (Trinidad and Tobago), and two local judges and members of the NGJ Board, Susanne Fredricks and Omari Ra. Deborah Anzinger had submitted a site-specific installation proposal for the Devon House ballroom, which was selected.

Deborah Anzinger was born in St Andrew, Jamaica. She attended the Rush University Medical Center, where she obtained a PhD in Immunology and Microbiology, and she is self-taught as a painter and multi-media artist. Her recent exhibitions include the Jamaica Biennial 2014 at the National Gallery of Jamaica, and Double Dutch: Heino Schmid + Deborah Anzinger (2016) at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas. Anzinger is the Executive Director of New Local Space Ltd. (NLS), a non-profit visual art initiative in Kingston. She is a regular participant in international art events, such as Tilting Axis in 2015 and 2016, in Barbados and Miami respectively, and recently completed a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2016). Her current body of work tests “the limits of understanding individual existence and experience as hybrid, indeterminate and magical, told from an unknowable inner world.” She is based in St Andrew, Jamaica.

 


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Greg Bailey

June 25, 2017, 11:09 am
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Greg Bailey – Colonial Legacies (2016)

Another feature from our Jamaica Biennial 2017 archives. Greg Bailey was one of the winners of the 2017 Dawn Scott Memorial Award.

Greg Bailey was born in 1986, in Trelawny, Jamaica. He attended the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, where he was awarded a BFA degree in Painting in 2011. Bailey’s exhibitions have included the Jamaica 50th Anniversary Launch (2012), Stuttgart, Germany; and Social Atrocities (2014), Olympia Gallery, Kingston Jamaica, as well as the Jamaica Biennial 2014, Young Talent 2015 and Explorations IV: Masculinities (2015), which were held at the National Gallery of Jamaica. His work explores issues of race, history and society, using academic painting techniques and image-making conventions, which are referenced ironically. Bailey lives in St Catherine, Jamaica.


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Kid Bazzle

June 25, 2017, 2:30 pm
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Kid Bazzle – Sister Nature I (2016)

Another feature on the artists in the recently closed Jamaica Biennial 2017:

Kid Bazzle was born in 1991, in St Andrew, Jamaica. He is a graduate of the University of Technology where he attained a BSc. in Computer Science. While there he developed an interest in photography and film. His work has been featured in the Jamaica Biennial 2014 at the National Gallery of Jamaica, as well as the Kingston on the Edge (KOTE) Urban Arts Festival in 2016. He was awarded the bronze medal for his entry in the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC)’s Visual Arts Exhibition and Competition in 2015. Kid Bazzle is based in Kingston, Jamaica.

Kid Bazzle – Brother Nature III (2016)


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Kimani Beckford

June 26, 2017, 8:16 am
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Kimani Beckford – Young, Gifted and Black (2016)

Here is another feature on one of the artists in the recently closed Jamaica Biennial 2017:

Kimani Beckford was born in 1988, in St Catherine, Jamaica. He attended the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, where he completed his BFA degree in Painting in 2011. In the same year, he was awarded the Prime Minister’s Youth Award for Excellence in Arts and Culture. Most recently his work was featured in the Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora (2016) exhibition held in Bristol, United Kingdom. In 2014, he was a recipient of the inaugural Dawn Scott Memorial Award for his submission to the Jamaica Biennial 2014 exhibition held at the National Gallery of Jamaica. Working mostly in paint media, Beckford explores the politics of race and representation in the contemporary context. Beckford lives in St Andrew, Jamaica.


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Simon Benjamin

June 26, 2017, 11:24 am
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Simon Benjamin was a first-time exhibitor in the recently closed Jamaica Biennial, 2017 edition. Here is a short feature on his work.

Simon Benjamin was born in 1979, in St Andrew, Jamaica. He holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. His exhibitions include the Negotiated Realities group show at Columbia University, New York and FORUM at NLS in Kingston, both in 2016. A photographer and mixed media artist, his current preoccupation is with the phenomenon of urban beaches, which he has explored in the Jamaican context by documenting the Forum hotel complex in Portmore. He was recently nominated for the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in Washington DC, USA. Simon Benjamin is currently based in New York City.

Website: www.simonbenjamin.com


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Claudia Beyer

June 27, 2017, 2:48 pm
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Claudia Beyer – Splendour in the Grass (2017)

Claudia Beyer was a first-time National Gallery of Jamaica exhibitor in the Jamaica Biennial 2017. She was born in 1956, in New York City. She is a self-taught artist who was raised in a family of artists. Beyer has illustrated several children’s books and found great inspiration during her many years living in St Martin. She currently lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica.

 

Claudia Beyer – Splendour in the Grass (2017, detail)


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Aisha Bell

June 28, 2017, 8:31 am
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Aisha Bell – Lick (n.d., still from video)

Aisha Bell exhibited for the second time at the National Gallery in the Jamaica Biennial 2017 and is one of a several Jamaican Diaspora artists who have started exhibiting regularly in Jamaica. She was born in 1974 in New York City and is of Jamaican parentage. She holds an MFA in Ceramics from Hunter College, an MS in Art Education, and a BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute. She uses a variety of media, including video, and her work primarily focuses on the fragmentation of an individual’s multiple identities. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, residencies and commissions and has exhibited extensively in the USA. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NYC.

Website: superhueman.com

 

Aisha Bell – Lick (n.d., still from video)


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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Jacqueline Bishop

June 28, 2017, 2:30 pm
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Jacqueline Bishop‘s contribution to the Jamaica Biennial 2017 was a word-based audiovisual installation titled Touch Me Secretly, which was based on her Female Sexual Desires project, for which women of various backgrounds were invited to discuss candidly aspects of their sexuality that are rarely acknowledged or shared.  Bishop was born in Kingston, Jamaica. An award-winning writer, educator, photographer and painter, she in 2016 completed her MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She also holds an MA degree in Fine Arts from New York University and a BA in Psychology from Lehman College, Bronx. She was a recipient of the UNESCO/Fullbright Fellowship (2009) and the Arthur Schomburg Award for Excellence in the Humanities (2000). In 2016, her volume of essays The Gymnast & Other Positions was announced as the winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (non-fiction literature). She works in photographic, video and textile media, exploring issues of history, family and self. Her artistic work has been exhibited in Belgium, Italy, Morocco, the United States and Jamaica. She teaches in the Liberal Studies Programme at New York University and is the founding editor of Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Art & Letters. Bishop is based in New York City.

Website: www.jacquelinebishop


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