Eye on Art

Arlington Weithers’ Mazunte Series: Renee’s Angel
96” x 66” (2004)
Arlington Weithers’ Mazunte Series: Renee’s Angel 96” x 66” (2004)

Turtles, paint, and fissures

Considering Guyana’s small population and its cultural and linguistic isolation on the South American coast, curiosity is always the order of the day for me when I learn of Guyanese in strange and far-flung places.

Walk with me – a show (l to r) Walk with me III, Walk with me V – Text Suspended, Walk with IV – Jasmine’s Story

Walk with me – a show

In 2017, five years after the Guyana Women Artists’ Association’s (GWAA) initial accommodation of my contemporary approaches with provision of a small room to show.

Letitia Wright during her visit to Guyana in January (SN file photo)

Celebrating a Queen

It is indeed fantastic that we can celebrate those from among us who leave for greener pastures, “make it”, as we say, then return, however temporarily, for perhaps refuelling or grounding.

Throop Series - Thalos Script

Is art relevant?

Writing this weekly column came about as a means to satisfy an itch to write about art in a less rigid and demanding way than academia requires.

 Arlington Weithers’ Throop Street Series: Thalos Script, Acrylic polymer emulsions with pigments on canvas 60” x 50” (2000) (Photo: Courtesy of the Artist, Collection of Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans)

When artists talk

Writing on the heels of moderating a discussion on “The State of Art” for the “Reimagining Borders: Talking Art…” event hosted from January 27 to February 3, 2023 – a collaboration between Rufaro Centre and the Roots and Culture Gallery – gave way to many negotiations to adequately represent the proceedings in the following paragraphs.

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