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By Asher Mains It’s not the way an artist expects to wrap up an exhibit, especially an exhibit on the world stage. It was with a heavy heart that I let out the initial information that my work, Sea Lungs, which was shown in the Grenada National Pavilion at the…
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By Asher Mains For the 57th La Biennale di Venezia I had the privilege of representing my country as part of an Official National Pavilion at the world’s oldest and largest stage for contemporary art. The event, lasting from Mid-May to late November 2017, saw hundreds of thousands of the…
St. George’s, Grenada By Asher Mains If there has been a singular visual art event in the last 5 years that has not only grown exponentially but also serves to catapult local artists into international attention it is the Grenada Contemporary exhibit hosted by Susan Mains Gallery. The evening of Friday, October 27th, at Spiceland…
The doors will open 27th October, 5.30 pm at Susan Mains Gallery. A relatively young annual art exhibit, the Grenada Contemporary, hosted at Susan Mains Gallery has been growing rapidly; this year showing the work of 30 artists from 11 countries. In the exhibit’s inaugural year, 2014, 8 artists work were shown and since then,…
By Susan Mains Gallery (LaVanda Mireles, far left and Susan Mains far right. Photo credit: Susan Mains Gallery) Thursday evening at Spiceland Mall, Susan Mains Gallery featured the opening reception for LaVanda Mireles’ new work in a solo exhibit titled Contact Lens. Grenada’s creative community was out in force to celebrate and support this new,…
Open call for artists to participate in Grenada Contemporary 2017.
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http://www.grenadavenice.org Sea Lungs – Statement We are inextricable from the sea. In an island environment, not only does it sustain us economically but also physiologically. This close relation is at the heart of “Sea Lungs”; imagining that the sea fans that wash up on the beach and resemble our own…
We welcome you to view Asher’s work before it travels off to Italy for the Biennale di Venezia. Preview will be Tuesday 11th April at 6 pm at Susan Mains Gallery at Spiceland Mall, Grand Anse, Grenada. Come meet the artist, and find out more about Grenada’s National Pavilion. Grenada National Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia,…
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This is an analogy I find particularly useful, especially when talking to young artists about how the process and product of their art-making. It involves situating what we know about food, cooking, and the sale of food and how closely linked it is to art, art-making and the sale of…
The Venice Insider is a lovely website dedicated to visitors to Venice. They have given a great review of the Grenada National Pavilion at the 57th Biennale di Venezia, even before it is open. Thanks Venice Insider! Click to read the article.Work of Jason deCaires Taylor in Grenada Underwater Sculpture Park.
Source: Making Art Grenadian Again Click the link to read this great review by Trinidadian blogger Celeste Mohammed. Thanks Celeste for your very insightful response to your trip to the gallery.
Kirby Shaw exhibition opens March 2 5.30 pm Susan Mains Gallery, Spiceland Mall, Grand Anse
Grenada’s first participation as an official national pavilion in 2015 at the 56th Venice Biennale was historic putting the country on the international contemporary art map. The island was one of the smallest countries to participate in this world-renowned event, resulting in much attention being received for Grenada’s art. Many linkages formed and gave Grenada…
Just Before Christmas Rene opened his solo exhibit at the lovely Laluna Resort on the south western shores of Grenada. Read this review of the exhibition by Asher Mains. There is more than what meets the eye at Rene Froehlich’s solo show, “Inside Out” at Laluna in association with Susan Mains Gallery. Which, after seeing…
“Restoration “ — Naturally The exhibition of art opened at the Susan Mains Gallery on Thursday last was an immersion experience. As soon as one stepped into the gallery, the feeling of the rain forest dominated. Accentuating that was the sound track for the evening—tropical rain in a thunderstorm. Unlike the French artist…
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