Berette Macaulay launches ‘Cocooning Catharsis’ in the Caribbean
Susanne Fredricks is proud to host the launch of ‘Cocooning Catharsis’, Berette Macaulay’s first solo show in the Caribbean. The exhibition opens this Thursday 19th December at 6.30 pm, at the Upstairs Gallery at Hi Qo Art Gallery, Kingston in partnership with James Joseph and Steve Wilson of Brand New Machine Global, and will be on display until January 9th 2014.
Event: ‘Cocooning Catharsis’ – Berette Macaulay’s first solo show in the Caribbean
Date: 6.30 pm Thursday 19th December 2013. Show runs til 9th January. Gallery viewing hours 11 am- 4pm
Location: Hi Qo Gallery, 24 Waterloo Road, Kingston 10
Berette Macaulay is an award-winning artist born in Sierra Leone of West African/ Dominican/German-Czech descent. She was raised in Jamaica and the UK, and is now based in the US. She works primarily in photo-based mixed media and installation using digital, alternative, and analog work processes. Berette also works collaboratively on interdisciplinary projects with performers, choreographers, filmmakers, and writers; and recently began work as a curator.
Her works have been exhibited and published internationally, in the Caribbean, Europe, Hong Kong, and the United States. She has shown works in several galleries and alternative spaces in New York City, such as Artists Space, Art Gotham, Headquarters Gallery, 25CPW Gallery, Gowanus Loft with the Vanderbilt Republic, and NH3 Gallery/Splashlight Studios. She has also shown at Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut, with Art For Progress/Fountain Art Fair for Art Basel Week in Miami, with ILLITERATE Gallery in Denver, Colorado, USA; NORD Galerie Haus in Nürnberg, GERMANY; and the National Gallery of Jamaica in Kingston, JAMAICA.
She also made her curatorial debut at NYFA supported Taller Boricua Gallery for her originally proposed photo-based group show on immigration and identity. The show titled ‘illusive self’ featured 46 works and 2 multi-piece installations by 18 emerging and established mixed media artists.
Berette won the Creative Arts award from Art For Progress for an interdisciplinary piece, SPLIT, which was presented at 320 Studios; and has been awarded three times by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission and the National Gallery of Jamaica in 2010, 2011, and 2012 for her work. She was also awarded 2nd place in the 2012 CCNY Annual Juried National Photography Competition. Chosen from 12, 000 applicants worldwide as 1 of 100 featured photographers, her journalistic work on a street artist in Jamaica was selected in 2013 for The Other Hundred book project.
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