Wrestling with the Image

Four of my collages will be previewed in Wrestling with the Image from the

January 21st to March 10 2011 at the Museum of the Americas.

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.