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‘Dreaming’ Exhibit Features Five Bahamian Artists

New Providence Art & Antiques will exhibit “Dreaming”, a group show displaying the talents of five young Bahamian artists: Allan P. Wallace, Jace McKinney, Omar Richardson, Damaso Gray, and Kishan Munroe for Transforming Spaces 2011.

The thread of the dream runs through their collective work reflecting conscious and subconscious hopes, aspirations, and desires, not only of the single individual, but of Bahamian Society and beyond. In tackling issues that confront us, their work takes on a universal quality, forging connections through our shared experiences, while at the same time making viewers examine their own preconceptions, and hopefully their own dreams.

Kishan Munroe’s art inhabits liminal spaces of our human experience; the moments, periods, eras when we make transitions from life to death, from joy to sadness, ignorance to understanding, ecstasy to agony.

Damaso Gray was born and raised in the fishing and farming village of Williams Town on the island of Little Exuma. Gray’s paintings reflect the contradictions and meanings of this journey.

Omar Melvin Richardson uses a combination of photography, text and sound to represent the complexity of human emotions. By combining and layering these processes, he is able to express beauty, anger and sadness in the same piece of work.

Jace McKinney has recently been published, having produced the illustrations for the Bahamian children’s book “Lenny in the Big Yard” and works as an illustrator and storyteller.

Allan Wallace has struggled with coming to terms with this gift, fearful of the power and light in his fingers. Now, he recognizes that his life has been a series of lessons in God’s classroom and that first and foremost he must use his gift to its full potential.

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