Rockstone and Bootheel

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ISSUE 4 FEBRUARY 10
www.realar tways.org
Born and raised in
Kingston, Jamaica, Real
Art Ways’ Director of
Visual Arts Kristina
Newman-Scott is a
practicing artist.
Newman-Scott has
organized and curated
exhibitions with a
particular focus on
presenting emerging
artists in innovative ways.
Her previous curatorial
projects include Shadow
Show, Archaeology of
Wonder and Real Public.
Yona Backer is a
co-founder of Third
Streaming, a project
where popular culture,
contemporary art, film,
fashion and design
intersect. Previously, she
served as the Director of
Visual Arts at the Americas
Society in New York and
most recently as the Senior
Program Officer at the
Andy Warhol Foundation.
Yona Backer was born in
Kingston, Jamaica and
raised in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
CONTENTS
About The Curators
About Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art
The exhibition’s name comes from
Jamaican
dub-metal song,
4. a
Ewan
Atkinson
Road Kill I, 2006
“Rockstone and Bootheel,” by Gibby.
It’s
a colloquial phrase that
Man
Maid, 2006
Left Hand Turn, 2006
means “taking a journey.” Rockstone
Bootheel is, in fact, an
Dogand
Track III, 2006
6.
Reneesometimes
Cox
exhibition composed of many journeys,
conflicting,all
Poolside, 2008
Rockstone & Bootheel includes works of 39 artists from the West
aKhalil
Jump Off, 2008
influenced by the social, political,
Deanemic conditions
8.
Blue Curry
Indies and the diaspora, focusing on artists from the Bahamas,
of life in the West Indies and the diaspora.
“West Indies”refers to a
Discovery of the Palm Tree Phone Mast, 2008
Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago.“The West Indies” refers
Untitled, 2009
group of islands in the Caribbean formerly
under British control.
10. Makandal Dada (a.k.a. K. Khalfani Ra)
to the group of islands in the Caribbean formerly under British
The exhibition focuses on artists from
the Bahamas, Barbados,
Birth-rite of restoration, 2009
control. More than half of the artists are showing work in the US
Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago, all
British colonies, each
12. former
Ras Kassa
for the first time. Featuring large-scale installation, new media
The Trod, 2000
with a distinct artistic presence. Rockstone
and Bootheel offers
14.
Jayson
Keeling
and multidisciplinary works, digital projections, large format •
Jesus speak
of me as I the
am, 2007 region’s popular
a snapshot of recent works that draw
from
Listen
without
prejudice,
2007
photographs, assemblage sculptures, paintings, live performance,
culture and history. Rather than make
the case for a particular
16. O’Neil Lawrence
videos. Also featuring a public art project in one of Hartford’s West
Re-Identified I, 2008
West Indian aesthetic, the exhibition
a lively glimpse
Re-Identifiedoffers
II, 2008
Re-Identified III, 2008
Indian markets. Hartford, Connecticut has the third largest West
into contemporary Anglophone18.Caribbean
visual practice Phillip Thomas
Indian population in the US, after New York and Miami.
an energetic “mash up” of art that
at the intersection of
Study,lies
2008
20. and
Dave Williams
popularand urban culture. Music
dance are pervasive in
Me and My Mannequin Performance, 2010
West Indian culture. Many of the works
in Rockstone and Bootheel
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incorporate sound and performative
elements, drawing from
A Brief History
23. other
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Carnival, Jamaican Dancehall, and
dominant subcultures.
The works also tell stories of the region’s
complicated history, a
The Exhibit
history filled with conflict, transformation,
and cross-cultural
26. 39 Artists...
29. The Artists
Link Up
exchange.Through their work,the artists
address
issues including
gender, race, sexuality and homophobia,
and the rampant crime
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and violence plaguing many of the
islands’ inner cities.
The exhibition features large-scale installations,
new media and
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& Bootheel
multi-disciplinary works, digital
projections,
music videos
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and largeformat photographs. Also
featured are assemblage
sculptures,paintings, and live performances.
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eMAGAZINE issue 4
Feb 2010.
PUBLISHER
REAL ART WAYS
www.realartways.org
56 Arbor Street
Hartford, CT 06106
EDITOR
Kristina Newman-Scott
Yona Backer
DESIGNER
DRACONIAN SWITCH
Richard Mark Rawlins
ABOUT REAL ART WAYS
Real Art Ways is one of the
leading contemporary arts
organizations in the United
States, with a record of
linking artists, innovation
and community. Programs
include visual arts, with
exhibitions, public art
projects, and artist
presentations; cinema, with
independent and
international films 7 nights
a week; music;
performance; literary
events; community and
educational programming.
Ewan Atkinson
Barbados, born 1975.
The relationship between
fuels Ewan Atkinson’s work.
The spaces that people decorate
and define for themselves and
their possessions are a reflection
of the self. As a resident of
Road Kill I, 2006
Mixed media on panel, 17” x 14”
the Caribbean, Atkinson pays
particular attention to how the
Dog Track III, 2006
Mixed media on panel, 30” x 22.5”
region’s diverse population
contributes to its particular
aesthetic and questions how
rockstone & bootheel: contemporary west indian art
personality and personal space
these factors tie into cultural
identity. Through this he
explores his own identity, its
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influences and its limitations.
Man Maid, 2006
Renee Cox
Jamaica, born 1960.
Renowned contemporary
photographer Renee Cox has
used her own body, both nude
and clothed, to celebrate black
womanhood and criticize a society
she often views as racist and sexist.
Born in Colgate, Jamaica, into an
upper middle-class family, who
later settled in Scarsdale, New York,
Cox is widely acclaimed for her
photographic series that provoke,
question and challenge the multilayered impact of sexism and racial
prejudice.
of the Bougies series as her “Black
Desperate Housewives meets The
Valley of the Dolls,” which was
the working title for the series.
In an interview Cox explained
that the work was inspired by
her experience living in suburbia
“around these women who are
on Valium and pain killers and
drink cocktails. They’re privileged
but they’re alienated and they’re
isolated. They’re alone.”
Renee Cox continues to push the
envelop in her work, questioning
society and the roles it gives
to blacks and women with
her elaborate scenarios and
imaginative visuals that offend
some and exhilarate others.
top: Poolside, 2008
From the The Discreet Charm of the
Bougies series
Pigment print, 33” x 41”
left: Jump Off, 2008
From the The Discreet Charm of the
Bougies series
Pigment Print, 31.5” x 39”
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Cox described The Discrete Charm
Blue Curry
Bahamas, born 1964.
Blue Curry works with sculptural
assemblage, installation and video.
Much of his recent work touches
upon the fantasies of the native,
the tropical and the exotic and
how these notions are created,
reinforced and played into.
His work positions itself somewhere
between cultural artifact, tourist
souvenir and contemporary art
piece. The objects he creates are
often exaggerated, elegant and
sensorially luscious, but at the same
time unsophisticated, improvised
and even shambolic in their
construction.
Discovery of the Palm Tree Phone Mast, 2008 Single-channel video, TRT: 2 min 18 sec
In the video Discovery of the Palm
Tree Phone Mast, Blue Curry leads
the viewer on a reconnaissancelike mission of a cell phone tour
disguised as a palm tree. As the
viewer approaches the target from
multiple angles he is finally able to
uncover the tree’s true identity.
Untitled, 2009 Conch shell, stroboscopic lamp (flash rate variable), 7” x 8” x 5”
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Makandal Dada (a.k.a. K. Khalfani Ra)
Birth-rite of restoration, 2009 Mixed media with nails on fabric, 54” x 28”
Jamaica, born 1958.
Makandal Dada, also known as K.
identity as a West Indian is reflected
in his work.
“Art....
a bulwark against the cultural
decadence and political barbarisms
of the West....
a proactive strike against the crime
called history....
the neutralization of the
Khalfani Ra, describes how his self
psycho-aesthetic terrorism of
art recognizes that, for the
descendants of those who came
under the lash of the whip, to be
a ‘West Indian’, is to accept the
identity of the slave....”
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religion and society....
Ras Kassa
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The Trod, 2000 Single-channel video, TRT: 30 min 16 sec
Often called “The Guru” this
award-winning Jamaican
director, producer, writer and
entrepreneur is internationally
known for his unique directorial
slate of mainstreem television
and music videos. Kassa, who
adopted his name from the
Ethiopian general Ras Kassa
(cousin to Haile Selassie I),
uses his belief as a Rastafarian
in his cinematic vision. The
documentary The Trod, dives
into the secrets and the stories
of his beloved Jamaica.
Jamaica, born 1974.
Jayson Keeling
USA/Jamaica, born 1966.
Jayson Keeling’s continuing
objective is to anchor and subtly
allude to desire in its purest
manifestations. He is interested in
death, excess, joy and the search
for the futile and unattainable as
they relate to notions of power,
social hierarchy and the intangible
avenues of their exploitation
within culture. To this end, he
applies an interdisciplinary
practice that simultaneously
explores and exploits cultural
iconography and residue, with
Jesus speak of me as I am, 2007 Single-channel video, TRT: 3 min 32 sec
Keeling uses painting, video,
sculpture and photography to
achieve this goal. He seeks to
undermine both the objectivity
that people bring to the art
experience, along with the
creation in the viewer, of an acute
awareness of their position in
relation to the construction and
confines of power.
Listen without prejudice, 2007 Single-channel video, TRT: 43 sec
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appropriationist gestures.
O’Neil Lawrence
Jamaica, born 1977.
This body of work is part of a
continuing series that O’Neil
Lawrence has created, which
seeks to convey the continuing
internal struggles of self and
identity between European
influences and African heritage.
Which self should he be? Which
influences should his persona
reflect? The figures in the work
Re-Identified III, 2008 Digital print on gator board, 24” x 36”
are allegorical references to
the different emotional states
induced by conflicted duel
cultures and the ever present
racial memory of the Middle
Passage.
Re-Identified II, 2008 Digital print on gator board, 24” x 36”
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Re-Identified I, 2008 Digital print on gator board, 24” x 36”
Phillip Thomas
Study, 2008
Mixed media on paper, 18” x 24” Courtesy of Russell Wikenson
This allows for a kind of
manufacture cultural reliquaries,
metadiscourse between the
artifacts and social curiosities
originals and the copies of
that represent the cultural
western art history. This act of
tapestry of the Caribbean and
the “master copy” is the very
the wider “new world”, using
nature of colonialism. The
mediums and other agents of
idea of studying at a “French
the old world. Paintings and
Academy” in the United States
other artifacts in this case are
is entrenched in cross-cultural
not for the sake of the medium
pollination. For the Caribbean,
of presentation, but more so
there are specific cultures that
as an artifact of works of art
concern the work. Predominantly
of the past. Hence the entire
the English, the French and
object produced (stretcher bars,
the Spanish. Each one of these
frames, oil paints, Phillip Thomas
cultures is reflected in the body
and all the other elements and
of works presented. From the
mediums of these objects) is
“master copies” of Turner and
a complete manifestation of
Ribera to sections of Velazquez,
an archaeological response to
are fused into the discourse not
agents of the old world as well as
as mere hints of artistic influence,
products of the new.
but also as cultural relics.
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Phillip Thomas intends to
Jamaica, born 1980.
Dave Williams
Dave Williams has performed
On March 14, Williams
and worked through the
performed the solo work
Caribbean, the UK, USA and
Me and My Mannequin at the
Europe, and has also been a
closing reception for
dance teacher. His performing
Rockstone & Bootheel.
career spans 24 years and
his body of work allows him,
in retrospect, to decipher an
enduring intent. His work
attempts to find and magnify
the feminine energy, qualities
Trinidad, born 1964.
and possibilities of men,
effeminate. In pursuing this,
he believes that he can reveal
the most vulnerable and at risk
component of Caribbean life real male confidence.
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without making them (the men)
Real Art Ways began when a group of visual
artists and musicians took over a rambling
upstairs space on Asylum Street in downtown
Hartford. The founding members created a
bare bones salon in which they lived, worked
and presented the work of others. The idea
of alternativity to the mainstream is central
to Real Art Ways – the organization arose at a
moment when alternative ideas were being
explored (e.g. alternative foods, alternative
medicines) and alternative institutions were
being established (e.g. alternative newspapers,
alternative schools, food co-ops, alternative
health care programs).
Through the latter part of the decade and into
the 1980s, Real Art Ways became a necessary
venue for artists and performers to be seen
and heard, with presentations in innovative
music especially notable. Rapid commercial
real estate development led to Real Art Ways
losing three spaces in ten years. The final
eviction in 1989 left Real Art Ways teetering on
the edge of extinction, and the organization
landed in a small space at 56 Arbor Street in
the culturally mixed neighborhood of Parkville.
Under the new leadership of executive
director Will K. Wilkins, Real Art Ways
regrouped after the move to Parkville. Wilkins
ushered in a second life to the organization
by commissioning a series of vigorous public
art projects, which have been placed in sites
throughout the city. Real Art Ways obtained
a 30-year lease on a large warehouse space,
and began the development of a unique
center for arts and culture. At the same time,
Real Art Ways has been very involved in the
Parkville neighborhood, and has participated in
planning processes for a redesign of the central
commercial district, and for neighborhood
gateways.
The Real Art Ways Cinema opened in the fall of
1996, showing first-run, independent films seven
nights a week. The galleries were renovated
and re-opened in June of 1999. The Real Room
and Loading Dock Lounge were renovated and
opened in November of 2002.
The quality and diversity of Real Art Ways’ work
have earned it repeated funding from national
sources, including the National Endowment for
the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation, the Ford
Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and the
Wallace Foundation as well as key local funders
including United Technologies, Aetna, Travelers,
Bank of America, the Hartford Foundation for
Public Giving, The Hartford, the Greater Hartford
Arts Council, and many more. Real Art Ways’
projects have generated regional and national
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In 2004 Real Art Ways organized and presented
the landmark exhibition None of the Above:
Contemporary Work by Puerto Rican Artists. The
exhibition was shown at the Museo de Arte
de Puerto Rico in 2005, the first exhibition of
contemporary Puerto Rican art organized off the
island to be shown in Puerto Rico.
Building on the success of None of the Above,
in the fall and winter of 2005-06 Real Art Ways
produced Faith, a multi-disciplinary project
centered around an exhibition curated by artist
James Hyde, and including work by Patty Chang,
Mat Collishaw, Rachel Harrison, Nancy Haynes,
Shirazeh Houshiary, Christopher Lucas, Josiah McElheney,
Walid Ra’ad (The Atlas Group), Sabeen Raja, Archie
Rand, Arlene Shechet, and Nari Ward. Real Art Ways
collaborated with the Hartford Seminary, and presented
nine films that addressed various aspects of faith, along
with several live arts events, including concerts, poetry
readings and performances.
In 2006-2007 we produced POZA, a multidisciplinary
project centered around an exhibition curated by art
historian, critic and poet Marek Bartelik. POZA brought
together work by artists, writers, filmmakers, and thinkers
with direct and indirect ties to Poland. Taking as a point
of departure specific national and cultural distinctions,
which could be called “Polishness,” the project offered an
open-ended proposition that treated such distinctions
as matters of choice and awareness, rather than linking
them to a specific locality or place of birth. Featuring 31
visual artists, POZA also included literary events and an
original film series, with 18 films and discussions guided
by community leaders.
Today, Real Art Ways is widely regarded as one of the
country’s outstanding contemporary art spaces, one
that has a special link with its own community. With
films, concerts, performance, readings, exhibitions and
a lounge where people gather before and after events.
Real Art Ways is a unique meeting place for people of
widely varying backgrounds to come together around
art and ideas.
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Individual Giving Manager
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Executive Assistant
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Chair
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Vice Chair
Nadya Koropey
Community Programs Coordinator
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Secretary
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Business Manager
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Treasurer
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Director of Visual Arts
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Founded in 1975, Real Art Ways is one of
the country’s early alternative arts spaces.
Real Art Ways presents and produces new and
innovative work by emerging and established
artists, and serves as a crucial connection for
audiences and artists regionally, nationally and
internationally. The organization has sustained
itself through committed support for new
ideas and disciplines, and has steadily built a
diverse and unique audience that crosses lines
of color, sexual orientation, economics and age.
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HISTORY of
REAL ART
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Diana Rosen
Cinema Coordinator
Will K. Wilkins
Executive Director
Installation images for Ewan Atkinson, Renee Cox, Blue Curry, Makandal
Dada, O’Neil Lawrence and Phillip Thomas were provided by John Groo.
Public programs slated
to take place during the
run of the show include
film screenings, readings,
performances, live music, artist
talks, lectures, and community
based activities. An event
schedule is available online.
About Rockstone and
Bootheel: Contemporary
West Indian Art
The exhibition’s name comes
from a Jamaican dub-metal
Rockstone and Bootheel offers
a snapshot of recent works
that draw from the region’s
popular culture and history.
Rather than make the
case for a particular West
Indian aesthetic, the exhibition
offers a lively glimpse into
contemporary Anglophone
Caribbean visual practice
- an energetic “mash up” of art
that lies at the intersection
of popular and urban culture.
Music and dance are pervasive
in West Indian culture.
Many of the works in
incorporate sound and
performative elements,
drawing from Carnival,
Jamaican Dancehall, and other
dominant subcultures. The
works also tell stories of the
region’s complicated
history, a history filled with
conflict, transformation, and
cross-cultural exchange.
Through their work, the artists
address issues including
gender, race, sexuality and
homophobia, and the rampant
crime and violence plaguing
many of the islands’ inner
cities. The exhibition features
large-scale installations, new
media and multi-disciplinary
works, digital projections,
music videos and largeformat
photographs. Also featured
are assemblage sculptures,
paintings, and live
performances.
An offsite public art project
by Karyn Olivier
Karyn Olivier will install an
interactive library within ACA
Foods, a West Indian grocery
store in Hartford, Connecticut.
The selected books are by
West Indian authors and
have themes associated with
Caribbean culture and history.
Distributed among the food
items within the store, the
books will be available for the
store’s customers to borrow
and return. Literary readings
and events will occur as part
of this project. For details,
visit www.realartways.org/
visualarts.htm#rockstone.
The exhibition’s 39
participating artists are
Akuzuru, Ewan Atkinson,
Lawrence Graham-Brown,
Renee Cox, Christopher Cozier,
Blue Curry, Sonya Clark,
Makandal Dada, Annalee
Davis, Khalil Deane, Zachary
Fabri, Joscelyn Gardner,
Marlon Griffith, Satch Hoyt,
Christopher Irons, Leasho
Johnson, Ras Kassa, Jayson
Keeling, O’Neil Lawrence,
Christina Leslie, Simone Leigh,
Jaime Lee Loy, Dave McKenzie,
Wendell McShine, Petrona
Morrison, Karyn Olivier, Zak
Ové, Ebony G. Patterson,
Omari Ra, Peter Dean Rickards,
Nadine Robinson, Sheena
Rose, Oneika Russell, Heino
Schmid, Phillip Thomas, Adele
Todd, Nari Ward, Jay Will and
Dave Williams.
Catalog by leading
Caribbean designer
Richard Rawlins will create
an interactive website and
catalog for the exhibition’s
international audience.
Rawlins is artistic director for
CMB Creative and the founder
of the online magazine
Draconian Switch. Like
Draconian Switch, the catalog
will also feature creative
work by designers working
in advertising. Contributing
writers to the catalog include
Garnette Cadogan; Nicholas
Laughlin (editor of the
Caribbean Review of Books);
writers and critics Annie Paul
and Melanie Archer; Donna P.
Hope, a professor of Dancehall
Culture and Reggae Studies;
and poet/activist Muhammad
Muwakil.
Support
Rockstone and Bootheel is
made possible by generous
support from: The National
Endowment for the Arts, The www.realar tways.org
Connecticut Commission on
Culture and Tourism, The
Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts
Foundation, Real Art Ways
members, The J. Walton Bissell
Foundation, The Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts,
The Greater Hartford Arts
Council’s United Arts
Campaign, Travelers, The
Hartford Foundation
for Public Giving, Sandy and
Howard Fromson, Robinson
and Nancy Grover, The Wallace
Foundation , Lincoln Financial
Group, and Gary E. West.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday through Thursday
and Sunday, 2-10 pm;
Friday and Saturday
2pm to midnight.
Closed Mondays.
Satch Hoyt
Christopher Irons
Leasho Johnson
Ras Kassa
Jayson Keeling
O’Neil Lawrence
Christina Leslie
Simone Leigh
Jaime Lee Loy
Dave McKenzie
Wendell McShine
Petrona Morrison
Karyn Olivier
Zak Ové
Ebony G. Patterson
Omari Ra
Peter Dean Rickards
Nadine Robinson
Sheena Rose
Oneika Russell
Heino Schmid
Phillip Thomas
Adele Todd
Nari Ward
Jay Will
Dave Williams
song, “Rockstone and Bootheel,”
by Gibby. It’s a colloquial
phrase that
means “taking a journey.”
Rockstone and Bootheel is, in
fact, an exhibition composed
of many journeys, sometimes
conflicting, all influenced
by the social, political, and
economic conditions of life in
the West Indies and the
diaspora. “West Indies” refers
to a group of islands in the
Caribbean formerly under
British control. The exhibition
focuses on artists from the
Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica,
and Trinidad & Tobago, all
former British colonies,
each with a distinct artistic
presence.
Cinema open daily.
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Akuzuru
Ewan Atkinson
Sonya Clark
Christopher Cozier
Renee Cox
Blue Curry
Makandal Dada
Annalee Davis
Khalil Deane
Zachary Fabri
Joscelyn Gardner
Lawrence Graham-Brown
Hartford, Connecticut – Real
Art Ways presents some of
the most challenging, recent
work by artists from the
Anglophone Caribbean
and the diaspora in Rockstone
and Bootheel: Contemporary
West Indian Art, curated by
Kristina Newman-Scott and
Yona Backer. The exhibition,
featuring the works of 39
artists, evokes the feeling
of a high-energy “mash up.”
The works are juxtaposed in
conversation with each other
to reveal complex, fragmented
stories about contemporary
Anglophone Caribbean
culture, challenging
common assumptions about
West Indian artistic expression.
opens on Saturday, November
14, and runs through Sunday,
March 14, 2010. Real Art
Ways is located at 56 Arbor
Street in Hartford’s Parkville
neighborhood. For more
information, contact Real Art
Ways: www.realartways.org
or 860.232.1006.
Zachary Fabri - Opening Performance
Sonya Clark
USA/Jamaica, born 1967
Iterations, 2008
Plastic combs, 8”x120”x60”
Courtesy of the artist
Renee Cox
Jamaica, born 1960
Image shown:
Poolside, 2008
Pigment print, 33”x41”
Courtesy of artist
Marlon Griffith
Trinidad and Tobago, born 1976
Image shown:
Louis, 2009
Powder Box (Schoolgirl series)
Digital prints on gator board, 48”x32”
Satch Hoyt
UK/Jamaica, born 1957
Rimology, 2009
Chrome wheel rims with soundscape,
dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist and Wheel Design
Christopher Irons
Jamaica, born 1973
Printa, 2008
Single-channel video, TRT: 4 min
Leasho Johnson
Jamaica, born 1981
Orange Boy series, 2008
Mixed media orange juice boxes,
3”x3”x5.5”
Christopher Cozier
Blue Curry
Bahamas, born 1974
Image shown:
Discovery of the Palm Tree Phone Mast,
2008, Single-channel video,
TRT: 2 min 18 sec
Makandal Dada (a.k.a. Khalfani Ra)
Jamaica, born 1958
Birth-rite of restoration, 2009
Mixed media with nails on fabric, 54”x28”
Annalee Davis
Barbados, born 1963
On The Map, 2007
Ras Kassa
Jamaica, born 1974
The Trod, 2000
Single-channel video,
TRT: 30 min 16 sec
Jayson Keeling
US/Jamaica, born 1966
Image shown:
Jesus speak of me as I am, 2007
Single-channel video, TRT: 3 min 32 sec
O’Neil Lawrence
Jamaica, born 1977
Image shown:
Re-Identified III, 2008
Digital print on gator board, 24”x36”
Simone Leigh
Cage, 2009
Steel suspended on wall,
264”x75”x89”
Yellow Stack, 2009
Zachary Fabri
USA, born 1977
The Big Pay Back, 2009
Joscelyn Gardner
Barbados, born 1961
Image shown:
Hibiscus esculentus (Sibyl), 2009
Hand-colored stone lithographs on frosted
mylar, 9”x18”
Christina Leslie
Canada/Jamaica, born 1983
EveryTING Irie series (8 of 14)
Handcrafted chromogenic prints,
23.5”x19.3”
Courtesy of Wedge Curatorial Projects
Jamie Lee Loy
Trinidad, born 1980
The Roach, 2007
From Roaches and Flowers:
War in the Home
Live flowers and silk pins, 42”x24”
Dave McKenzie
Jamaica/USA, born 1977
Present Tense, 2007
Courtesy of the artist and Susan Vielmetter
Los Angeles Projects
Wendell McShine
Trinidad, born 1973
Prosper, 2009
Animation, TRT: 4 min 30 sec
Sound System Version II, 2007
Installation: 4 speaker sound system
Music: a sound collaboration by Christopher
Cozier, Robin Foster, Sheldon Holder & Martin
Raymond (with sound sequences by Chantal
Esdelle, Christian Campbell & Yvette Grey).
This sound work received start up support from
the Prince Claus Fund of the Netherlands.
Ewan Atkinson
Barbados, born 1975
Image shown:
Mixed media on panel, 12”x12”
Courtesy of artist
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39 ARTISTS ...
Akuzuru
Trans-Portal //\\ The Ascent, 2007
Digital print, dimensions variable
Khalil Deane
Jamaica, born 1977
Blood Soaked Skies, 2007
Triptych - Acrylic paint on canvas, 34”x92”
Jamaica, born 1969
Image shown:
Ras-Pan-Afro-Homo Sapien, 2009
Mixed media mannequin, 36”x18”x12”
Ebony Patterson
Jamaica/USA, born 1981
Endz – Khani + Di Krew I-III, 2009
From the Disciplez series
Mixed media on paper with petals and
pussy bulletz, dimensions variable
Nari Ward
Lazarus, 2006
Metal stand, taxidermy turtle, plastic,
electrical tape, plaster St. Lazarus,
thermometer, brushes and plastic
intravenous bag with Chinese herbs,
51”x21”x21”
Courtesy of the Lehmann Maupin Gallery
Renee Cox
http://reneecox.org/
Christopher Cozier
http://christophercozier.
blogspot.com/
Blue Curry
http://www.bluecurry.com/
Sonya Clark
http://www.sonyaclark.com/
Annalee Davis
http://www.annaleedavis.com/
Khalil Deane
http://www.myspace.com/
kimalabennett
Omari Ra
Jamaica, born 1960
The book of the dead:
Illustrations of the patois bible, 2008
Mixed media collage, dimensions variable
Courtesy of artist
Peter Dean Rickards (Rickards Brothers)
Jamaica, born 1969
Image shown:
Proverbs 24:10, 2008
Nadine Robinson
US/Jamaica, born 1968
Laquita, 2005
Synthetic hair fiber, mbf board
and hair pins,
144”x96”x2”
Sheena Rose
Barbados, born 1985
Town, 2009
Silent single-channel video,
TRT: 2 min 30 sec
Jay Will
Jamaica, born 1979
It’s All About Dancing
: Jamaican –U – Mentary,2006
Single-channel video, TRT: 100 minutes
Zachary Fabri
http://www.zacharyfabri.com/
index.html/
Joscelyn Gardner
http://www.joscelyngardner.
com/
Satch Hoyt
http://www.satchhoyt.com/
Ras Kassa
http://www.raskassa.com/
O’Neil Lawrence
http://www.petrinearcher.com/
oneil-lawrence
Oneika Russell
Jamaica, born 1980
Porthole, 2008
Single-channel video,
TRT: 3 min 47 sec
Heino Schmid
Bahamas, born 1976
North Star, 2008
Single-channel digital video,
TRT: 6 min 23 sec
Courtesy of the artist and
the National Gallery of the Bahamas
Phillip Thomas
Study, 2008 mixed media
on paper, 18”x24”
Courtesy of Russell Wikenson
Adele Todd
Image shown:
Police an’ Tief, 2008-2009
Embroidery on linen, 6 ¾” x 11 ¼”
Dave Williams
Mannequin and Me performance
Simone Leigh
http://www.simoneleigh.com/
Jaime Lee Loy
http://jaimeleeloy.blogspot.
com/
Karyn Olivier
http://www.karynolivier.com/
Zak Ové
http://www.zak-ove.co.uk/
Ebony G. Patterson
http://www.artitup.zoomshare.
com/
Omari Ra
http://www.aviscafineart.com/
Jamaican_Gallery/Omari_Ra/
omari_ra.htm
Peter Dean Rickards
http://www.afflictedyard.com/
Oneika Russell
http://www.oneikarussell.net/
Heino Schmid
http://www.heinoschmid.com/
Adele Todd
http://www.adeletodd.wordpress.
com/
Nari Ward
http://www.nariward.net/
Jay Will
http://www.youtube.com/user/
jaywillfilms
Karyn Olivier
karynolivier.com
Zak Ové
UK/Trinidad and Tobago, born 1968
Blue Devils from the
Transfigura series (9 works),
2001-2009
Gicle prints on aluminum, 55”x39”
Ewan Atkinson
http://www.ewanatkinson.com/
Wendell McShine
http://72ironman.blogspot.com/
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Karyn Olivier
Site specific installation at ACA food store,
Main
Street, Hartford, Connecticut
ARTIST LINK UP
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Petrona Morrison
Jamaica, born 1954
Image shown:
Us and Dem, 2009
From the Stick-em Up series
Digital prints on foam core, 11”x13”
Akuzuru,
http://www.bagfactoryart.org.
za/html/resident/residents/
AKUZURU/AKUZURU.htm
Directed by Jerome Laperrousaz
A powerful portrait of the leaders of a
Jamaican music movement that has
become a worldwide phenomenon. The
film tells the story of how artists that lived
on a small Caribbean island nation of only
three million people took their human
experiences and turned them into songs
full of emotions that resonate around the
world. Reggae is Jamaica’s blues: a music of
both desperation and hope.
Click the picture for more info.
JANUARY 17, 2 PM
The Solitary
Alchemist
FEBRUARY 14, 2 PM
Goathead
Directed by Paul Bucknor
A romantic comedy set in rural Jamaica
where Randy and Stella find their country
love merged with the antics of goat thieves.
Based on the story District Fellowship by
Hazel Campbell.
Directed by Mariel Brown
Filmed over three years, in Trinidad, England,
and Scotland, The Solitary Alchemist is a
moving and intimate portrait of the life and
art of Trinidadian jeweller Barbara Jardine.
NOVEMBER 29, 2 PM
Rain
JANUARY 17, 2 PM
Melting Treasure
Directed by Maria Govan
After the death of her grandmother,
14-year-old Rain is forced to trade her
simple but happy life for the uncertainties
of living in the capital with her drug-addict
and prostitute mother who abandoned her
as a baby. Rain finds hope in her promising
sprinting abilities.
Animated short
Directed by Natasha Mahabir and Renu
Boodoosingh. A little girl tries to keep her
treasure from melting.
FEBRUARY 21, 2 PM
The Upsetter:
The Music and Genius of Lee Scratch Perry
Directed by David Loeb Weis.
A documentary about the life and genius
of Jamaican musician and visionary Lee
Scratch Perry. Click the picture for more
info.
PRESS COVERAGE
FILM SERIES LISTING
NOVEMBER 15, 2 PM
Made in Jamaica
HARTFORD COURANT
‘Rockstone and Bootheel’ Comes To City
With Nation’s Third-Largest West Indian
Population
click here for article
FASHION OFFICE.ORG
Taking a journey to and from the
Caribbean
NY TIMES Art & Design
ROCKSTONE AND BOOTHEEL:
CONTEMPORARY WEST INDIAN ART
THE JAMAICA
OBSERVER
The Mystic Legacy
THE BARBADOS
NATIONAL GALLERY
Barbadian Artists invited to
exhibit works in the USA
DECEMBER 6, 2 PM
Racing Definitions
Catch A Fire
Dominoes and Bingo
Three short films discussing history, race,
and community in Caribbean cultures.
See website for more details.
JANUARY 24, 2 PM
Inna di Yard
JANUARY 24, 2 PM
Scoundrel
Directed by Rochelle Allana Brown
A project to record music in the back yard
of reggae guitar legend, Earl ‘Chinna’ Smith.
Directed by Nile Saulter
Deep in the Jamaican countryside lives
Jacket, a bumbling, argumentative and
filthy restaurateur. When a customer gets a
bit more on his plate than he’d bargained
for, Jacket still seems not to care about of
his ways--that is, until the health inspector
is alerted to his activities and Jacket is
forced to clean up his act.
DECEMBER 13, 2 PM
Journey of the Lion
Directed by Fritz Baumann
Brother Howie is a Jamaican Rastifari who
dreams of the land of his ancestors: Africa.
On a journey in search of his roots and his
identity he travels through three continents
and - with great humor and sensitivity discovers the world...and Africa.
FEBRUARY 7, 2 PM
Float
Directed by Kareem J. Mortimer
Jonny Roberts, a young painter from the
crowded inner city of Nassau, travels to
the beautiful island of Eleuthera to clear
his mind. There, he meets the beautiful and
sexually forward Romeo.
MARCH 7, 2 PM
Combing Through
the Roots of Black
Hair
Directed by Kimala Bennett
A documentary that explores the many
manifestations of and perceptions
about black hair. The film takes a literal
and figurative route through the Blue
Mountains of Jamaica. Click the picture
for more info.
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PROJECTS
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Blue Curry
Zak Ové
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Ebony Patterson
Ras Kassa
Sheena Rose
Jayson Keeling
Richard Rawlins
O’Neil Lawrence
Phillip Thomas
Issue #2 – December 2009
Dave Williams
Joscelyn Gardner
Satch Hoyt
Issue #5 – March 2010
Petrona Morrison
Sonya Clark
Peter Dean Rickards
Annalee Davis
Nadine Robinson
Zachary Fabri
Heino Schmid
Christopher Irons
Adele Todd
Leasho Johnson
Wendell McShine
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Karyn Olivier
Akuzuru
Omari Ra
Khalil Deane
Oneika Russell
Simone Leigh
Jaime Lee Loy
Christina Leslie
Dave McKenzie
Maxine Walters
Nari Ward
Jay Will
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is made possible by the generous support from:
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