Deejay Iset Sankofa will spin music.
With
more than 160 works of art by more than 90 artists shown at three
different locations—the National Gallery and Devon House in Kingston and
National Gallery West in Montego Bay, the Jamaica Biennial 2017
is the largest such exhibition in the National Gallery’s history. It
provides a dynamic and diverse overview of current art from Jamaica,
elsewhere in the Caribbean and the Diaspora in all artistic media,
including painting, sculpture, ceramics, textile and fibre art,
photography, installation and new media. The exhibition has four
components: special projects by international invitees; tribute
exhibitions to two noted Jamaican artists; contributions by the artists
who have invited status; and what was selected from the juried
submissions—the latter two sections include artists who are born or
based in Jamaica and artists of Jamaican descent who live elsewhere.
The resulting Jamaica Biennial 2017
offers a healthy and at times provocative mix of new, emerging and
established artists, including recent graduates of the Edna Manley
College such as Ziggie Graver and Kelley-Ann Lindo; artists who have
never exhibited before such as Nathan Cunningham, who is self-taught;
and as well as well-known artists such as Samere Tansley, Marlon James,
Laura Facey, David Boxer, Deborah Anzinger, Prudence Lovell, Storm
Saulter, Phillip Thomas, Bryan McFarlane, Petrona Morrison, Shoshanna
Weinberger, Jasmine Thomas-Girvan and many others. The special projects
are by Andrea Chung, David Gumbs, Nadia Huggins, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Raquel Paiewonsky, and Marcel Pinas—all
of them artists with Caribbean roots or based in the Caribbean—while
the two tribute exhibitions provide overviews of the work of Alexander Cooper and the late Peter Dean Rickards.
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