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Olympia at Atlantic World

 

The Olympia Art Gallery has made available in the link below the eCataogue of its third participation in the Atlantic World Art Fair. Atlantic presents galleries and art projects of talented contemporary art makers in the Caribbean, the Atlantic Islands and the region's wider diasporas.Olympia showed 30 works by ten artists, mostly paintings. Olympia says the artists it chose represent young and emerging, contemporary and established, and intuitives.

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