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AfterColour takes a look at the contemporary dynamic of complexion defining beauty in diasporan women. It examines the representation of women of different shades of skin, by themselves and by others, and the idea of ‘shadism’, both in Trinidad and within a wider, global discussion that’s happening right now. AfterColour's opening reception will be held on March 15th at 6:30pm – 9:00pm at Medulla Art Gallery at 37 Fitt Street in Woodbrook, POS, Trinidad. The show will run through March 29th 2012 wi th an Artist Talk on Wednesday the 28th of March 2012. For more information or to RSVP call: 868- 740-7597 FIND out more here .

FROM Briana McCarthy's blog . FOR more information, check out the blog or go to a sale Brianna is having from this Friday to Sunday at 33 Murray Street, Woodbrook. Sale pieces can be found on Facebook here .

From Joanna Crichlow's Blueprint series  Perhaps the artists' most inevitable subject is herself. After all, we map our experiences and react to the world around us through the prism of who we are, what we are, what we have experienced, what we have not. Art could be a record of someone , through the medium of recording something . One thing artists Brianna McCarthy and Joanna Crichlow have in common is a direct engagement with the body in their work. This is, in fact, an engagement with their own bodies and, by extension, an engagement with the implications of their personal spaces in society. In a sense, all art is an engagement with the body: produced by the body, often depicting the body, reflecting the body via inanimate forms (mountainous landscapes, empty rooms). For if art reflects the artist, then she must admit that she is ultimately a body on a journey to something. "I juxtaposed images of mannequins with images of me," Crichlow said on Saturday night, expl...

"From my gaze as a plus-sized woman, the mannequin becomes a mental paragon to me, one which I do not exist within.  It is an image of perfection, the icon of what I refer to as "industrialized idealism".  Through the concept of blueprinting, my work challenges the constructs of industrialized idealism by juxtaposing images of my own body with those of mannequins, to provoke questions such as, 'Can there be a blueprint for the human body?'"-- Joanna Critchlow I'm fascinated by the dynamics of masking and unmasking, to be literal; the faces we wear and why and when and how we wear them. I have several I think, as do many of us. Sometimes we all want to be unrecognizable, a deliberate riddle or barely concealed as if wearing wax.  I'd been feeling a little constricted recently by my own ideas of meaning and relevance. I had forgotten the advice I read in a Marie Claire magazine (I think) when I was probably 15, "Do what you love and the rest comes...

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“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” - Khalil Gibran. From Senses  posted on the awesome Brianna McCarthy  BLOG   Passion Fruit .

"I'm reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Forgive the post title. I might be heading in a few years of self imposed solitude myself"--From Brianna Mc Carthy's awesome blog Passion Fruit . CHECK it  here .