Rodell Warner, Family and Friends No. 1, single channel video, color, 32s loop. Editions 1-20 + 1 AP. Presented by TERN Gallery.
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Buy Caribbean Art - It’s Good For You
Investment is a complicated subject and investing in art can be even more so, as many claims to have no knowledge of the subject.
Likely the word “art” is not the first to come to mind when thinking about the Caribbean mid-Atlantic. But it should. The art market in the region is right on the edge of transitioning from emergent to highly sought-after. It is this transition — the getting in early— that makes this moment such an exciting time for art collectors.
Atlantic World Art Fair Partners With Fountainhead Arts — First Artist In Residence: Curtis Santiago
Atlantic World Art Fair (AWAF) is thrilled to partner with Miami’s Fountainhead Arts, an arts organization that empowers artists to build a better future. The Atlantic World Art Fair and Fountainhead Arts are committed to elevating the practices and careers of contemporary artists from the Atlantic Caribbean region and its Diasporas. Founded in 2008 by collectors Kathryn and Dan Mikesell, Fountainhead Arts operates a residency program that invites domestic and international artists to live and work in Miami for one month.
Our top 15 Caribbean art events in April 2022
Spring has finally sprung! We are pleased to share our specially curated list of top events to not miss in the month of April. With the return of the monumental: Atlantic World Art Fair, dive into the best Caribbean contemporary art on offer. Stay up to date with the latest events in the Caribbean through our art events’ agenda: www.caribeart.fr
The Galleries Championing Artists from the Caribbean Region
For centuries, the Atlantic has served as the transient space that connects the “old” and “new” worlds. As humanity has evolved in its movement through it, reducing the traveling time from months to mere hours, this space has served as a highway for cultural, economic, and social transit. Many islands along the way from point A to point B were submitted to what became the beginnings of many empires of plunder. This geographical region, with its many cultures and histories, demonstrates that the Atlantic isn’t just an in-between place defined by travel and tourism, but rather an actual place where people live and experience ramifications of historical oppression.
The Atlantic World Art Fair
I sketched the context for the inaugural Atlantic World Art Fair, an international art fair virtually hosted on the Artsy platform, which features nine galleries from the Caribbean and Bermuda and 50 artists. The fair’s objectives are ambitious: “We aim to elevate the conversation on the contemporary art makers in the Caribbean, the Atlantic islands and the region’s wider diasporas,” while challenging the underrepresentation of the art from the region in the international art market. The exhibitors include locally. well-established galleries, such as Gallery Alma Blou from Curaçao and Galerie Monnin from Port-au-Prince, and new, internationally focused ventures such as the TERN Gallery from Nassau and the Sour Grass curatorial agency from Barbados.
On View: Tern Gallery of Nassau, Bahamas, Presenting Slate of Caribbean Artists at Online Atlantic World Art Fair
A NEW ART FAIR showcasing artists from the Caribbean and Atlantic Islands debuted on Artsy May 31. Presented online, the Atlantic World Art Fair features nine galleries offering works by contemporary artists from the Caribbean, the Atlantic Islands, and the wider diaspora in the region. Among the participating galleries, TERN Gallery of Nassau, The Bahamas, is spotlighting 11 artists, including Anina Major, Rodell Warner, Melissa Alcena, Tamika Galanis, Delton Barrett and, working in collaboration, Avira Wright and Jodi Minnis. In addition to her artistic practice, Minnis serves as gallery manager and curator at TERN. CT.
Three Trinidad and Tobago artists in Atlantic World Art Fair
Three TT artists are exhibiting in the first Atlantic World Art Fair (AWAF) on the fine art website Artsy.net. The virtual event, which runs until June 21, is the first time the art powerhouse, the leading marketplace to discover, buy, and sell fine art, has focused on the Caribbean. Each artist is represented by a gallery, and the work chosen is picked by the artists and their respective curators.The artists are photographer Abigail Hadeed, represented by Barbadian-based curatorial agency Sour Grass, visual artist Roberta Stoddart, represented by Jamaican gallery Suzie Wong Presents, and mixed-media artist Rodell Warner, represented by Bahamian gallery Tern Gallery.
Het internationale online kunstplatform Artsy organiseert de eerste Antlantic World Art fair van 1 tot 21 juni.
Aan deze virtuele kunstbeurs doen negen art galleries mee. Suriname is vertegenwoordigd door Readytex Art Gallery met 26 kunstwerken van tien Surinaamse kunstenaars. Deelnemende galleries aan de Atlantic World Art Fair zijn: Black Pony Gallery (Bermuda), Frame Centre Gallery (Jamaica), Galerie Monnin (Haïti), Gallery Alma Blou (Curaçao), Readytex Art Gallery (Suriname), Sour Grass (Barbados), Suzie Wong (Jamaica), Tern Gallery (de Bahama’s), The Olympia Gallery (Jamaica)
Lisa Howie on Organizing Inaugural Atlantic World Art Fair, Online Event Features Works by Artists From Caribbean and Atlantic Islands
AS THE GLOBAL ART MARKET, historically centered around Europe and North America, increasingly recognizes the contributions of artists in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, a new art fair is showcasing a region that remains woefully under-appreciated—the Caribbean and Atlantic Islands. All of the galleries are women-led and three are Black-owned—Gallery Alma Blou in Willemstad, Curaçao; Frame Centre Gallery in Kingston, Jamaica; and Black Pony Gallery in Hamilton, Bermuda.