Jun 29 - Aug 22, 2026
SUMMER
SUMMER
works on paper
TERN Gallery is excited to announce the summer exhibition, SUMMER SUMMER | works on paper, a group exhibition that brings together diverse works of sixteen artists whose practices explore the expressive possibilities of paper as both medium and material. Encompassing drawing, printmaking, collage, mixed media, and handmade paper, the exhibition highlights the breadth of approaches that paper invites. Whether serving as a surface for mark-making, a structural element, or an integral component of the artwork itself, paper offers artists a space for experimentation, storytelling, abstraction, and play.
United by the material, the exhibition celebrates paper's unique capacity to embody both permanence and fragility. From intimate studies to richly layered compositions, each work reflects a distinct engagement with process, texture, and form. SUMMER SUMMER: works on paper offers viewers an opportunity to consider the versatility of a medium that continues to inspire diverse artistic practices while revealing the many ways artists transform the everyday into something enduring.
SUMMER SUMMER | works on paper will remain on view until August 22nd, 2026. For more information on this exhibition, email info@terngallery.com
Melissa Alcena
Melissa Alcena is a Bahamian portrait and documentary photographer based in Nassau, The Bahamas. Alcena’s practice is the lens through which she reintroduces herself to the Bahamian landscape. Through this exploration and reintroduction, she documents people in situ.
LaVaughn Belle
LaVaughn Belle makes visible the unremembered. Through exploring the material culture of coloniality Belle creates narratives from fragments and silences. Working in a variety of disciplines her practice includes: painting, installation, photography, writing, video and public interventions.
Cydne Jasmin Coleby
Cydne Jasmin Coleby’s practice investigates personal, ancestral, and collective relationships to conditioning and trauma through the lens of Caribbean identity. Using personal and family archives as source materials, she gives space to lived experiences in the tropics as they exist within—and often against—fabrications of paradise.
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Kachelle Knowles
Kachelle Knowles is a mixed media artist who explores ideas of gender identity, cultural preservation/ production, and social relations within the black community. Knowles’ graphite drawings on paper center portraits of men of the African diaspora, specifically black Bahamian men.
Steven Schmid
Steven Schmid is a Bahamian interdisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of masculinity and otherness through painting, collage and assemblage. Adopting Hip-Hop production and sampling as a visual practice, Schmid’s current research explores how laughter, humour and play can imagine more expansive representations of Bahamian masculinity and individualism.
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Tessa Whitehead
Tessa Whitehead is a multi-media artist, whose work explores her internal experience in conversation with the tropical landscape. Her paintings, drawings, and sculptures combine and contrast elements of the Bahamian landscape with surreal figures and familial portraits. The result is an autobiographical perspective of femininity and womanhood.
Delton Barrett
Delton Barrett is a first-generation Bahamian-Jamaican and self-taught fine art photographer, concerned with surrealist perspectives. Dedicating his practice to the rejection of tradition, favouring the reinvention of images of everyday Caribbean landscapes.
Leonardo Benzant
Leonardo Benzant is an artist who bridges the spiritual and the material realities of the African diaspora. In his multidisciplinary practice he is most known for his expressive painting and his elaborate beaded sculptures. Born and raised in Brooklyn he is Dominican-American with Haitian heritage.
John Cox
Cox adroitly destroys certain clichés and often mindless tropes. Like a chef combining unexpected seasonings and greetings, he often juxtaposes ideas and images from home and abroad in a variety of media.
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Jodi Minnis-Rolle
Jodi Minnis is a multidisciplinary artist who investigates the intersection of gender, race and culture. Through photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, video and performance, she scrutinizes the traditional representations and tropes around Black, specifically Bahamian, women.
Simon Tatum
Simon Tatum is an interdisciplinary artist. His works center procedures that loosely follow Du Bois’s message of double-consciousness. He focuses on the actions of undoing, remaking, disassembling, and reassembling print imagery and found objects through his authorship.
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Jason Bennett
Jason Bennett (born 1974, Florida, USA) is a multi-media artist, renowned for his paintings and mixed-media collages that describe landscape and journey. Meandering lines indicating topography and repetition, while floral outlines suggest intimate places and spaces.
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April Bey
April Bey is a Bahamian interdisciplinary artist who makes work that is both an introspective and social critique of American and Bahamian culture, contemporary pop culture, feminism, generational theory, social media, AfroFuturism, AfroSurrealism, post-colonialism, and constructs of race within supremacist systems.
Kendra Frorup
Kendra Frorup was born and raised in Nassau. Her father was a contractor and it was from him she first learned about materials and their uses. One of the defining features of Frorup's practice is her prolific and playful use of a variety of everyday material, often organic and tied to the landscape she grew up in.
Heino Schmid
Heino Schmid emphasizes collaboration and the activation of space throughout his practice. He is currently the Head of Department of Visual Arts and Design in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at the University of The Bahamas.
Drew Weech
Drew Weech is a Bahamian painter who explores various historical and contemporary archetypes to vivify his own conflicted feelings about the notion of “home.” Working primarily in black and white, his practice rejects notions of a single-story by diffusing the space between the past and the present. .
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