Studio Swap: New Projects by Che Lovelace by Cheyenne Baptiste

Opening Reception

Medulla Art Gallery
Tomorrow, Thursday 08 December 2011
6.30 – 9.00pm
37 Fitt Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain
RSVP 740 7597 / .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Exhibition continues until 22 December 2011

Abovegroup Ogilvy’s neighbour and good friend Che Lovelace is hosting the opening of his new show at Medulla Art Gallery tomorrow from 6:30pm. We’d love it if you could make it - admission is free and it will be a fun evening out (oh, the art is awesome as well).

ABOUT THE SHOW
Conceived as an open studio event that takes place outside of Lovelace’s studio, Studio Swap will showcase many new, large-scale paintings, smaller works, and a projected piece. Lovelace’s new, large-scale paintings demonstrate the artist’s increased focus on the human body in various environments and situations. He has been using performance as part of his work process, executing and photographing specific actions, out of which he then develops his paintings. Short stop-motion films are also produced from these performances.

Parallel to his work with the body and movement, Lovelace has continued his long-standing series of Carnival and ‘Mas’ oriented paintings. A selection of the most recent of these works will also be presented. The artist has also been a fervent documenter of his works in progress as well as day-to-day life and moods in the studio, and a selection of these and other images will form part of the projected piece.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Che Lovelace has had one-person exhibitions at Half Gallery, New York; the National Museum of Trinidad & Tobago; along with other Trinidad galleries. He recently showed at the 2011 Volta Art Fair in New York, represented by the Fine Arts Society Gallery, London. A selection of his portraits was recently exhibited at the Pertwee Anderson & Gold Gallery, London, UK. He has been included in exhibitions in Spain, Ecuador, Paris, Santo Domingo, and Curaçao, among other locations. In 1999 he was awarded the UNESCO-Aschberg Artist Bursary and he worked in London for several months under the auspices of INIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts), after which he completed artist’s residencies in Uganda and Venezuela. He studied painting at L’Ecole Regionale des Beaux Arts de la Martinique, (Regional School of Fine Art, Martinique).

ABOUT THE GALLERY
Medulla Art Gallery has been established to carry on and develop the traditions of Aquarela Galleries. Medulla, as the name implies, will provide a core space for art education with public participation through exhibitions, forums and seminars. Isabel Brash, Martin Mouttet and Geoffrey MacLean hope to use Medulla to demonstrate art, not only as a social expression, but also as a medium for therapy and growth. Workshops will form part of all exhibitions and include introductions not only to painting, but sculpture, print-making and media.

Posted in on 08th Dec 2011