Bajo El Sol Gallery presents a solo exhibition by La Vaughn Belle—“Islands Do Unusual Issues”—which opens on March 3 and runs by way of March 30, 2023. Bajo El Sol Gallery is positioned at Mongoose Junction, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Priscilla Hintz Rivera Knight writes:
Be a part of us on Friday, March third at Bajo El Sol Gallery for the opening exhibition occasion that includes internationally-recognized Crucian artist La Vaughn Belle. Beginning at 4pm until 8pm visitors can expertise the exhibition, titled “Islands Do Unusual Issues,” which encompasses three units of works throughout a number of mediums. The items discover ideas together with survival, historical past, geography, reminiscence, and the way these concepts manifest as a colonial topic. The occasion may also characteristic the musical stylings of St. John musicians Eva & Mark.
La Vaughn Belle was born in Tobago, however raised in and operates her studio in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. She has exhibited her work within the Caribbean, the USA, and Europe in establishments such because the Museo del Barrio in New York Metropolis, the Museum of the African Diaspora in California, Casa de las Americas in Cuba, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Denmark. Her artwork can be featured within the collections of the Nationwide Images Museum and the Vestsjælland Museum in Denmark. La Vaughn Belle has been featured in earlier exhibitions and showings at Bajo el Sol together with her involvement within the documentary We Carry It Inside Us in 2018, and a V.I. Research Collective neighborhood discussion board in 2019. Belle was additionally extremely lauded because the co-creator of a transnational public artwork venture named “I Am Queen Mary”, which featured a 7-foot-tall monument to the Fireburn queen in entrance of a former colonial warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Belle’s artist assertion says, “I see my artwork follow as an investigative device, a platform for considering, a solution to develop information and interact in dialogue. My work is tremendously outlined by my positionality as an artist residing and dealing within the U.S. Virgin Islands, a spot that has modified colonial palms seven times- the longest being Denmark and the final being the US. Consequently, we wrestle to venture our personal imaginary onto ourselves. My work normally includes a variety of analysis and considering by way of the narratives inscribed in objects and areas. In essence, I’m working to create a counter-archive, to search out and fill within the gaps produced within the archives, striving to make seen the unremembered.”
Belle says the exhibition title “Islands Do Unusual Issues” encapsulates the themes in all of the works to be displayed at Bajo El Sol Gallery in March. The exhibition will characteristic new watercolor work on paper entitled “A Ritual of Paradise,” and a few works beforehand exhibited in New York Metropolis – portray collages entitled “How one can Think about the Tropicalia as Monumental”, and digital prints on metallic from a sequence entitled “For These of Us Who Stay On the Shoreline.” The exhibition will run from March 3 to March 30.
Extra details about the exhibition, the pricing of works, and future exhibitions could be discovered by contacting the gallery at 340-693-7070 or bajoelsolgallery@gmail.com.
Priscilla Hintz Rivera Knight and David Knight Jr., Bajo El Sol Gallery & Artwork Bar homeowners since 2016, are pleased with the gallery’s over 20-year legacy of assist and engagement with the humanities neighborhood of St. John and the higher Virgin Islands. The gallery is house to thought-provoking month-to-month exhibitions, readings by award successful V.I. writers & poets, documentary screenings on among the Caribbean’s most revered thinkers, in addition to talks by native teachers and visiting curators.
Bajo El Sol Gallery can be house of the Gri Gri Challenge. The Gri Gri Challenge’s mission is the creation of interpretive exhibitions, crucial writing, occasions and archives associated to the cultural patrimony of the U.S. Virgin Islands and the broader Caribbean area.
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