Art Bytes

National Gallery’s 50th Anniversary Exhibition

 

The National Gallery of Jamaica’s 50th Anniversary exhibition, Continuity, runs from June 30 to September 30th, 2024. Continuity revisits ten NGJ’s iconic exhibitions, including the Biennials of 2014, 2017 and 2022 and Jamaica Jamaica, (2020). It also features exhibitions from National Gallery West, the Montego Bay arm of the NGJ. Those exhibitions explored gender, the intersection of Jamaican art and music, fashion and technology in portraiture, sculptures, textiles and multimedia.

Continuity will exhibit more than 40 artists, including Barrington Watson, Albert Huie, Cosmo Whyte, Everald Brown, Petrona Morrison, Miriam Smith, Deborah Anzinger, Keambiroiro Khalfani Ra, Kimani Beckford, Ebony G. Patterson and Richard Nattoo.

For more information please visit https://nationalgalleryofjamaica.com/

Art Bytes

Developed together with Steve Madden, the collection was designed for warm weather with the use of bright neon colors with rope, rhinestones, and buckle embellishments.

The work of photographer Nadine Ijewere is featured in the March 2020 issue of American Vogue.

Dr Rachel Moseley-Wood, head of the Department of Literatures in English at UWI, Mona recently launched her 254-page book, Show Us as We Are: Place, Nation and Identity in Jamaican Film.

Six students from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts designed a mural to mark the starting line of the Sagicor Sigma Run in February.

Ivorhod Walters’ Before They Came will be part of the second staging of Due West, the National Gallery West’s annual exhibition that runs till April 11th. Walters, a St.

Ebony Patterson’s installation Invisible Presence: Bling Memories is at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle as part of the In Plain Sight exhibition.

Pages