The Atlantic World Art Fair is pleased to return to the leading global online art marketplace Artsy, and will open to the public for two weeks from 20 April to 5 May, 2022 with the support of Butterfield.
Our Selected Artists:
Shannon Alonzo
Dean Arlen
Edward Bowen
Christopher Cozier
Irénée Shaw
Participating galleries/ art project partners include:
Black Pony Gallery, Bermuda
Calabar Gallery, NYC, USA
Cayman Art Week, Cayman Islands
Espace d’art contemporain 14N61W, Fort-de-France, Martinique
Galerie Monnin, Miami, USA and Petionville, Haiti
Gallery Alma Blou, Willemstad, Curaçao
Gallery OCA, London, UK
Olympia Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
Readytex Art Gallery, Paramaribo, Suriname
Suzie Wong Presents,Kingston, Jamaica
Tern Gallery, Nassau, The Bahamas
Y Art Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidadian interdisciplinary artist Shannon Alonzo has been working in the creative industries since 2011, within a variety of roles from visual art to production design. Her project collaborations include work with design house Meiling Inc and production design for feature films ‘Play the Devil’ and ‘Moving Parts’. Her artistic practice explores themes of collective belonging, place attachment and the significance of carnival ritual to the Caribbean consciousness. In August 2019, Alonzo exhibited an ongoing body of work entitled ‘IMPRINT’ at The Loftt Gallery in Port of Spain. In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize and was awarded grants from the 125 Fund and CATAPULT Caribbean Artist Showcase. In the same year, she undertook an artist residency at Alice Yard Project Space, Port of Spain and has recently completed a Masters of Research in Creative Practice, at the University of Westminster, U.K.
From Tacarigua to John Donaldson Technical Institute to UWI to Ontario College of Art and Design. From Jewellery to Visual Art to Installation Art… “My perception of visual art has evolved towards a performative act-tion within the political socio-economic life of the urban, the rural. A kind of schizophrenia within aesthetics, as I rethink the value of the studio and how the practice engages its space. There is a conscious consideration of art for tomorrow” – Dean Arlen
Dean Arlen
2021
7ft x 4 ft
Paper, acrylic spray, enamel, graphite, oils, glue on canvas
Dean Arlen
2020
48 x 48”
Paper, glue, acrylic, spray enamel, graphite
(Layered Installation)
Dean Arlen
2022
Paper, acrylic spray, enamel, graphite, oils, glue on canvas
(Layered Installation)
Born 1963, Eddie Bowen studied at Croydon College, UK from 1981-1985. He has since been living and working in Trinidad, often letting his environment in San Souci, be his muse.
Christopher Cozier is an artist, living and working in Trinidad and a co-director of Alice Yard, a collective, which will be participating in Documenta 15.
He was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2004 and is a Prince Claus Award laureate, 2013.
Through his notebook drawings to installations derived from recorded staged actions, Cozier investigates how Caribbean historical and current experiences can inform understandings of the wider contemporary world.
Exhibitions include the 5th & 7th Havana Biennials, Infinite Island, The Brooklyn Museum, (2007) Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic (2010), TATE Liverpool, Entanglements at the Broad Museum, Michigan 2015. Relational Undercurrents at MOLAA. L.A. (2017) and The Sea is History, Historiskmuseum, Oslo, 2019. Cozier participated in the public program of 10th Berlin Biennial, 2018, exhibited in the 14th Sharjah Biennial in 2019 , the 11th Liverpool Biennial in 2021, Industrial Art Biennial, Croatia, 2020 and currently in Más Allá, el Mar Canta (Beyond, the Sea Sings) at the Times Art Center, Berlin, as well as Fragments of Epic Memory at the AGO ( Art Gallery of Ontario) and Experiences of Oil at the Stavanger Museum, Norway.
Christopher Cozier
2018 .
Limited edition Print
Produced in Collaboration with Y Art Gallery. Photograph: Melissa Miller . Action performed by Jean Michel Le Blanc in Port of Spain.
Christopher Cozier
2003 .
From the exhibition-
Taking Note: WORKING DRAWINGS {2000-2012}
Mixed Media on Paper .
59 x 60” .
“My work aims to transform conventional readings of where I am from – or about what I am supposed to be concerned. How do my experiences coming from a place like the Caribbean, and now, moving through others, shape how I see the world?
Investigating the relationship between the contemporary and historical conditions, I often enlist mundane everyday objects, along the way, seeking to transform them into signs/vocabularies to generate dialogues across geographies, histories and contemporary experiences. From my on-going personal notebook drawings – making notes or taking note – I develop public actions trying to figure diverse ways of making and conveying work or of creating an experience or an awareness.”
– Christopher Cozier
Christopher Cozier
From the Thupelo Workshop – Cape Town
1999
Mixed Media on Paper .
59 x 60” .
“This drawing is about looking at old photographs of people and architectural spaces that felt familiar… but I was in South Africa… and thinking, in general, just as in my context, whether of family/ancestors, or just people like myself, how they all looked familiar but just as unreadable or inaccessible.
One can only speculate as to their countenance to cope or contend with all around them within that captured moment.
Produced in a workshop in Cape Town, South Africa, I fused these kinds of photographic images with an antique mirror I came accross which reminded me of the type of mirror in a Colonial threshold, or hat and umbrella stand at the entry of my Barbadian grandparent’s home. I placed the stick fighter’s heart shaped breastplate in the image to pay homage to the struggles of these people in the images across the Atlantic.
Even though visible, they felt fenced in or off, within a history that was as familiar as it was unknowable to me now…”
– Christopher Cozier
Born: 1963, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. Irénée Shaw is an artist living and working in Trinidad. A figurative painter, the artist has shown her work locally and internationally since her return from study in the United States in 1988. Shaw has done numerous commissions in the Caribbean and also Germany. Most notably the CLICO “Pioneers of the Caribbean” calendar series in 1995. She has participated in the Big River International Workshop, the Santo Domingo Biennial, the Biennial of Cuenca and co-curated Lips Sticks and Marks – an exhibition of contemporary women artists and was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center in 2002. Shaw has taught art at Holy Name Convent, Port of Spain, since 2003
Irénée Shaw
2021
62 x 40” . Diptych (32 x 40″ each panel)
Oil Painting on Canvas
Irénée Shaw
2021
72 x 18” . Polyptych (18 x 18″ each panel)
Oil Painting on Canvas
