Artists in the Exhibition
Maria Elena Alvarez (Venezuela) Nicole Awai (Trinidad) Firelei Baez (Dominican Republic) Holly Bynoe (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) Melissa A. Calderon (U.S.A/Puerto Rico)Vladimir Cybil Charlier (Haiti) Asha Ganpat (U.S.A./Trinidad) Jessica Lagunas (Guatemala) Rejin Leys (U.S.A./Haiti) Sofia Maldonado (Puerto Rico) Ana Patricia Palacios (Colombia) Sandra Stephens (Jamaica)Concept: This exhibition brings together work of women artists from the Caribbean and its diasporas that addresses themes related to gender. It defines the Caribbean as an expansive space that is not limited by national borders or island geographies. Grouping work by women from Anglophone, francophone, and Spanish-speaking backgrounds, it shows how common themes emerge from the experience of gender despite regional differences. The exhibition title “Disillusions” refers to the tendency of the work in the exhibition to shatter illusion-whether pictorial or otherwise-by engaging in formal fragmentation, embracing discontinuity, and obfuscating meaning. These artists refuse to present a world that is whole or coherent; instead they acknowledge that contemporary experience is fragmented, subjective, and often incomprehensible.
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