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Series: Vintage jewelry boxes as storytelling tableaux by Curtis Santiago
Curtis Talwst Santiago is a Trinidadian-Canadian artist best known for his miniature dioramas that recreate stories pulled from the headlines and shed light on underrepresented histories. In his multimedia practice, Santiago transforms reclaimed jewelry boxes into scenes that feature creative retellings of […]
Series: Dominican Modernism with Darío Antonio Suro García-Godoy
Darío Antonio Suro García-Godoy was an art critic, diplomat and painter from the Dominican Republic. He was the nephew of painter Enrique García-Godoy, his first art teacher. García-Godoy is considered one of the founders of the modernist school of Dominican […]
Series: Dominican Cubism with Jaime Colson
Jaime Antonio Gumercindo Gonzalez Colson was born in Tubagua, Puerto Plata in 1901. Educated in Santo Domingo, he travelled to Paris to improve his painting skills. Jaime Colson moved in 1918 to Spain where he studied art at La Lonja, […]
Series: Examining humanity and machinery with Rigo Art Peralta
Born in San Josè de las Matas, Dominican Republic, and then relocated to Brooklyn, New York in 1989. These dichotomous cultures have inspired Peralta’s work to blend in a visual language with cultural diversity, which connects his Caribbean past with […]
Interview: An ode to anguish with ‘Anxiety’ by Vieux Jeune Homme
A multidisciplinary artist from Martinique, Vieux Jeune Homme uses his art as a therapy, to help him understand, dissect and heal his traumas. He leaves his comfort zone of photography and writing, by making the experimental film “Anxiety”, published in […]
Our top 15 Caribbean art events in June 2022
Summer 2022 is here and Caribeart here to give you the perfect selection to kick off your summer schedule. June being pride month, this curated list offers you a range of events including workshops, festivals, fairs and lectures that celebrate […]
In Focus : Social Justice and Pop Culture with Miguel Luciano
Miguel Luciano is a visual artist born in Puerto Rico and currently based in New York. He explores themes of history, pop-culture, and social justice through sculpture, painting, installations, photography, and socially engaged public art projects. His work has been […]
Series: Puerto Rican Neo-Expressionism with Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Arnaldo Roche Rabell was a Puerto Rican Neo-Expressionist painter whose symbolic work deals with issues of national identity, belonging, and childhood trauma. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1955, Roche Rabell studied architecture at the University of Puerto Rico before […]
InFocus : Legends and mysterious monochromatic collographs with Belkis Ayón
Belkis Ayón, was a Cuban printmaker known for her allegorical collographs, inspired by afro-cuban religion. A signature technique of a printing process in black and white, in which a variety of materials are collaged onto a cardboard matrix. composed of ghostly featureless androgynous figures with […]
