#TBT | Today’s throwback features a snapshot of Chief Curator, O’Neil Lawrence (right) with a guest, marveling at Archie Lindo’s ‘Irish Moss Gatherers’ c1950 at the opening reception of Explorations IV Masculinities exhibition at National Gallery West in 2015.
The National Gallery of Jamaica is pleased to present a new exhibition, titled Masculinities, at National Gallery West, its branch at the Montego Bay Cultural Centre, Sam Sharpe Square, Montego Bay. The exhibition will be on view at National Gallery West from May 1 to July 17, 2016. The opening reception will be on Sunday, May 1 at 4 pm, with entertainment by Joshua Clarke.
Masculinities explores how masculinities – and the use of the plural is deliberate – have been represented in Jamaican art and visual culture. In doing so, the exhibition also explores how various masculine roles and identities, and the perceptions that surround them, have evolved in the Jamaican context. The exhibition includes work by artists from the nineteenth century to the present, such as Isaac Mendes Belisario, Albert Huie, Osmond Watson, Barrington Watson, Rose Murray, Mallica “Kapo” Reynolds, Ebony G. Patterson, Leasho Johnson, Wade Rhoden, Peter Dean Rickards, and Vermon “Howie” Grant. Masculinities is an abridged version of the Explorations IV: Masculinities exhibition which was shown at the National Gallery of Jamaica in Kingston earlier this year. Both exhibitions were curated by the National Gallery’s Senior Curator, O’Neil Lawrence.
For more information on National Gallery West and the Montego Bay Cultural Centre, please visit the MBCC website at: <montegobayculturalcentre.org> or the National Gallery West blog at: <nationalgallerywest.wordpress.com>. For more information and tour bookings, please call: (876) 971-3920 / (876) 940-6402 or email: montegobayculturalcentre@outlook.com.
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