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Hew Locke. West Indies Sugar Corporation, 2009. Acrylic paint on paper. 12 x 8 3/5 in. (30,7 x 22 cm.). "Curators Christopher Cozier and Tatiana Flores presented a model for viewing or representing history as an emerging and fragmented partiality. A partiality, however, that does not preclude, but rather enriches one's ability to contemplate the circumstances it seeks to describe..." READ MORE here .

Detail from Christopher Cozier's "all that's left" FROM THE ORGANISERS: Christopher Cozier. Open Studio. Saturday, June 11; Sunday, June 12, 3 to 9 pm. Three projects will be installed in Cozier's studio with related studies and drawings for sale: • “Tropical Night” series, shown in “Infinite Island”, Brooklyn Museum, NY, and also in “Afro Modern” at the TATE Liverpool • “Now Showing”, a silkscreen edition produced for the TTFF • My latest silkscreen edition, “all that’s left,” launched by David Krut Projects, NY, and on view in “Fugitive Vision” Please call 714-3609 for directions. ABOUT 'FUGITIVE VISION': David Krut Projects is pleased to present Fugitive Vision, a group exhibition of works by Christiane Baumgartner, Christopher Cozier, Joseph Hart, Whitney McVeigh, Ryan and Trevor Oakes, Phil Sanders, Sara Sanders, and Mary Wafer. The human eye continuously absorbs and categorizes an endless flow of visual information, encountering, simultaneously and u...

SEE RICHARD RAWLINS E-CAT here . The Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) announces the opening of  Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions , an exhibition of contemporary art from twelve Caribbean countries.   Featuring work by artists from the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago, the exhibition is curated by artist and curator  Christopher   Cozier  and art historian Tatiana Flores. Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions  presents works in a variety of media, including photography, video, painting, graphic arts, sculpture, and installation.  The scope of the objects demonstrates how the region’s contemporary artists are confronting stereotypes about the Caribbean without denying their own surroundings or rejecting the worlds in which they operate.   Through investigations on history, tourism...

Do I want to make these items relate? Do I want to stamp one as a product, re-appropriated like the emotions of the individual? Do I want to draw lines between the hangman's hidden noose and the nails on the wall from which the clips hang? Little hangings, all. Little lives, bare. Paper and paint and boxes? Re-interpreted in a different manner every time. And thereby re-appropriated by the mind. Several minds. " Why are they being labeled here in Trinidad? What would the value of labeling my work this way in narratives of development and progress?"  FROM Christopher Cozier's blog . READ an interview with Cozier, on the eve on the opening of a show at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York,  here . ALL photos copyright Christopher Cozier.

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Christopher Cozier, Now Showing, (2010), silkscreen on archival paper, 27”x20” It has the look of a puzzle, some kind of coded message. Apparently incongruous images collide above feet, some bare, some clothed. Enslaved or free? What might be a plot in a graveyard (the artist sees it also as a car-park) stands alone, next to a large letter A. A grade? A brand? A start? '12.30' oozes red liquid. Is it after midnight or mid-day? A '12.30' show? Above it all, three key images raise ideological questions and paint impressions of relationships. Prime among them is the tree, inspired by the one at the Forensic Sciences Centre, Port of Spain, where murdered bodies are brought almost daily, where families seek shade. Faint in the background is Clint Eastwood and company. What exactly is showing in this wild wild west? WATCH a film about the making of this artwork, for the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2010, here . READ the artist's own account of the work here .

Detail of artist Ravi Rajcoomar's installation for the Paramaribo SPAN exhibition; Paramaribo, Suriname. Photos courtesy Nicholas Laughlin. An important exhibition of contemporary art, curated by Trinidadian artist Christopher Cozier, this week opens in Paramaribo, S uriname. The exhibition, which ARTSPUB blogger Richard Rawlins has described as " a bubbling, energetic, dynamic"  runs from February 26 to March 14 and serves as a platform for young artists. It is part of a larger conversation about contemporary art and visual culture in Suriname, which has, of course resonance for the wider Caribbean given our similar histories. According to the SPAN blog, " The project has three separate but interconnected platforms: an exhibition, which will open in Paramaribo in February 2010; a book to be published in three editions (Dutch, English, Portuguese); and a blog, which is at once a journal, an archive, and an independent creative undertaking. The project is, in part, a...

Detail from Blue Shade by Romare Bearden 1972 © Romare Bearden Foundation/DACS, London/VAGA, New York 2009 An exhibition, featuring artists ranging from Trinidadian Christopher Cozier to American Kara Walker,  opens today at the Tate Liverpool, UK. "Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic explores the impact of different black cultures from around the Atlantic on art from the early twentieth-century to today. The exhibition takes its inspiration from Paul Gilroy's influential book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness 1993. It features over 140 works by more than 60 artists. Gilroy used the term 'The Black Atlantic' to describe the transmission of black cultures around the Atlantic, and the instances of cultural hybridity, that occurred as a result of transatlantic slavery and its legacy. Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic reflects Gilroy's idea of the Atlantic Ocean as a 'continent in negative', offering a network c...

The unspeakable grief. What you can do . Image a detail of a photo by Christopher Cozier on a trip to Haiti.