ART EXHIBITION
CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSIONS:
ART FROM THE GUYANA DIASPORA
AUGUST 14 - SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

FIVE MYLES GALLERY
558 ST. JOHNS PLACE, BROOKLYN, NY 11238

Poetry, literature and visual art, are portable means of taking various  essential cultural values along with us wherever we happen to go. The arts allow us to dream in metaphor - allows us to traverse the subtle and concrete territories of a shared history. It’s all about tragedy, beauty, love, loss, and continuing struggle. This show which samples the work of outstanding artists who have contributed over many years to the creation and growth of a modern art in Guyana, is one way to share GCA’s objective, to Preserve, Promote and Propagate Guyanese Creativity.

While we have achieved in the visual field as much as we have maintained excellence in the literary area, Guyana, the only Anglophone country on the continent of South America, is often caught between its close cultural, political, and historical ties to the Caribbean Islands, and its physical location on the mostly Latin mainland. The result is that this vital, multi-cultural, and multi-racial former outpost of the British Empire is often overlooked in reviews of Latin American art, and is only grudgingly admitted into an occasional West Indian themed exhibition. However, relative to its size, the country has produced more than its share of extraordinarily accomplished artists of international stature. CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSIONS - ART FROM THE GUYANA DIASPORA is a rare attempt to present some of these artists in one venue.

by Philip Moore