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Sexypink - A gathering/conversation instigated by Christopher Cozier. “…In Trinidad, the art encounter and or transaction often seems to exist outside of historical trajectories with a fake and mysterious notion of universal standards or quality - can we question or just accept this?” Cozier Based on conversations which took place at Alice Yard over the last year, Christopher Cozier, rather than having a “one man” exhibition, invites artists Amir Denzel Hall, Bianca Peake, Elechi Todd and Khaffi Beckles, to open the conversation; to think about the meaning of making and process within and from our geographic location. Why Now? is an assembly of ways of working and ideas. Asking about collaboration, our art market space, local art history, how and why work is viewed and consumed. What are the degrees of consonance and dissonance? Why associate? Why share space? Why make art here? And Why Now?

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                                            On at Y Gallery

                                  Group Show titled HEATWAVE

Janis Löhrer is a German artist living in Düsseldorf, Germany. In his drawings and paintings he often uses a monochrome palette and explores different approaches to pictorial space. He creates a play between distance and proximity, using principles of repetition and accumulation. Up close, his works show a variety of male figures, often in an intimate or vulnerable state.The exhibition, Heat waves, opens July 16th. 

Part I  features:

Ryan Huggins (b. 1991) Trinidad, lives and works in Düsseldorf.

Tadashi Toyama (b.1985) Japan, lives and works in Düsseldorf

Jana Zatvarnická (b.1988) Slovakia, lives and works in Düsseldorf

Janis Löhrer (b.1991) Germany, lives and works in Düsseldorf.

Photography Melissa Miller

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                           Edward Bowen’s present show at Y Gallery

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                              On at Y Gallery Trinidad and Tobago

In Tadashi Toyama's paintings, his personal experiences merge with fiction to create a world of his own.
His paintings undergo a constant process of change influenced by nature and culture.
This process of discovery plays a key role and is supported by intuitive application of color. 
The driving force behind this process is the search for something that comes close to the presence of reality.The exhibition, Heat waves, opens July 16th. 

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Another year of highest highs and devastating lows greeted us in 2022. We had much for which to be happy and hopeful, sad and hurt. But the Art keeps us alive and for that we are all extremely grateful. Here is to 2023. We shall persevere and be stronger than ever because that is what ART does.

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                              Y Art Gallery Trinidad and Tobago 

Jana Zatvarnická in Studio. “My research traces the human history, heritage, and non-self-reflective anthropological framing. In my artistic process, I intend to capture the progress of my research on re-learning and re-archiving our "apparent " self-evidence and spiritual-historical processes in society by utilizing painting and installation as a medium. By using different tools and materials and embedding them into the chosen space I am creating “individual" mythology. In doing so I am leaving Traces. Traces of my body, Traces of spirits, Traces of gesture and Traces of touch.” - Jana Zatvarnická

The exhibition, Heat waves, opens July 16th.

 Part I  features:Jana Zatvarnicka (b.1988) Slovakia, lives and works in Düsseldorf

Melissa Miller .Kimme Museum. Bethel, Tobago. 2022. 

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Sexypink - the indomitable Roberta Stoddart. Art is in her name.

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...also recently at Y Gallery

Sexypink - A beautiful show with a cause

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Right now at Y Gallery 

SHIFTS: Works as follows-:

Ken Crichlow . Sweet Celeste . 2022 . Oil and Gold leaf on Canvas . 50 x  50”

Luise Kimme Sculpture at the forefront of the Y Gallery space

Boscoe Holder works with Luis Kimme sculptures

Roberta Stoddart Wild Palms
202220 x 18 inches

Edward Bowen with sculpture by Luis Kimme

Dean Arlen's experimentation and exploration continues with this Mixed Media on Canvas works.

Boscoe Holder . 1984 . 20 x 24” . Oil on Hardboard

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Born 1963, Edward Bowen studied at Croydon College, UK from 1981-1985. He has since been living and working in Trinidad. San Souci has played a major part in his work’s evolution, allowing escape from urban life in POS Trinidad, as well as a cross-pollination between the physical environment and painting/ drawing.Edward Bowen has exhibited a notable confidence in a variety of media, often intermingling on the same canvas or paper. In 1987, he started The Architect of Impossible Physics a series of meticulously detailed drawings executed with surgical precision. Being in San Souci also fostered Edward Bowen’s interest in Permaculture, which has informed his practice in that manner of cultivating a balance between chaos and order. He's confidently ventured into larger paintings, often employing acrylic paint, ball point pen, paint, marker, graphite, charcoal etc on canvas to articulate complex ideas and emotions. Bowen has participated in many Solo and Group Exhibitions in the Caribbean and Sao Paulo.

The Rain-Water Paintings is Bowen’s first solo show of large works on canvas since the exhibition, Stories, at Y Art Gallery, 2017.

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Ryan Huggins . Spiel Haus I . 49 x 59” . 125 x 150 cm . Oil on canvas . 2022

The paintings within the exhibition Heat Waves breath life into queer social gatherings. Parties meet indoor swimming pools, music, sharp lights and dark shadows. The small impressionist style figures, all men, fill the painting to gather a sense of fun, celebration and atmosphere. Also on display are life sized figures and portraits of young men propped by light and decoration stimulating a sense of lust and confidence while acknowledging youth and beauty.

- Ryan Huggins

Tadashi Toyama . Mistletoe . 63 x 51.5” . 160 x 130 cm . Oil on canvas . 2022

In the fall of my seventeenth year, I was alone in the mountains mowing grass for the cows at a boarding school in the mountains. The wind was blowing pleasantly and clouds were slowly drifting across the sky. I was lying on my back, using the grass as a bed. Many insects gathered around my body, which was indescribably pleasant.

After a while, a light suddenly appeared from the left side of my body, and when I saw the light, I was awakened. The sense of time and space disappeared, there were no boundaries to anything, and I felt that everything was one. There was no more separation between myself and the world. And I was filled with an omnipotent feeling of understanding everything at the same time, and I felt so happy that I could not imagine a better feeling of happiness.

But think about it. Do boundaries exist in this world? For me, the feeling I got from this experience seems to be true.

When I paint, I tune in to the feeling of everything being one. Like tuning in to a radio channel. Motifs emerge from there. I match the composition, colors, and lines to that feeling. And I want to make the vibrations coming out of the painting as strong as possible.

-Tadashi Toyama

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            Another look at HEATWAVE @ Y Gallery Trinidad and Tobago

                       Currently on: Heat Waves July 16 - 30

                                       Featuring work by:

Ryan Huggins (b. 1991) Trinidad, lives and works in Düsseldorf

Tadashi Toyama (b.1985) Japan, lives and works in Düsseldorf

Jana Zatvarnicka (b.1988) Slovakia, lives and works in Düsseldorf

Janis Löhrer (b.1991) Germany, lives and works in Düsseldorf

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                           On now at Y Gallery Trinidad and Tobago

                                Heat waves Opens 16.7.22

Part I  features 4 artists:Ryan Huggins (b. 1991) Trinidad, lives and works in Düsseldorf.

Tadashi Toyama (b.1985) Japan, lives and works in Düsseldorf

Jana Zatvarnická (b.1988) Slovakia, lives and works in Düsseldorf

Janis Löhrer (b.1991) Germany, lives and works in Düsseldorf

The painters, who met through the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, are participating in a 12 week Art Residency at the historic Luise Kimme Museum in Tobago. 

In this period, they explore the cultural landscape of both Tobago and Trinidad whilst simultaneously working towards Part I of the Heat waves exhibition. 

Part II will follow in August- a duo show featuring Ryan Huggins and Tadashi Toyama.

Though each artist comes from different countries, cultures and languages, their bond over painting and support of each other’s work over the past 7 years creates a unique atmosphere through which their latest collections are being produced.

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                                           On at Y Gallery

Ryan Huggins is a figurative painter whose paintings are a fusion of ideas surrounding alternative youth sub cultures within queer communities. Huggins examines the vocabulary on queer references and terminologies in relation to body, social identity and gender as a growing language. Heat waves opens July 16th . Part I  features:Ryan Huggins (b. 1991) Trinidad, lives and works in Düsseldorf. Images by Mellissa Miller for Y Gallery

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                                 Save the date ....Part 1 ..... 

        Ryan Huggins, Tadashi Toyama, Jane Zatvarnicka , Janis Lohrer

                                             16.07.2022

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