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11/30/23
EXHIBITION: CYDNE JASMIN COLEBY’S “ONE OF THE BOYS
For its final show of the year, TERN is staging the first solo exhibition at the gallery by the talented Cydne Jasmin Coleby, a Bahamian digital and mixed media collage artist. Having presented Coleby in group shows and at international art fairs, TERN invited the artist to permeate the entire space for One of The Boys, an exhibition exploring the dynamic of bars in our local communities.
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09/08/23
Photofairs New York shows the promise and peculiarity of an evolving market
Tern pursues this goal across two stands at Photofairs, each featuring works conceived to counter stereotypical ideas of tropicality. The first displays a not-for-sale installation by Tiffany Smith that offers visitors a moment of respite in what the gallery describes as a “wicker throne chair” surrounded by artificial foliage, soothing light and crystals. The main stand features still photos, digital assemblages and video pieces on Polaroid-size screens by Smith and fellow Caribbean artists Steven Schmid, Rodell Warner and Melissa Alcena. Prices for works in the latter stand range from $1,750 to $4,200.
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One of The Boys
The Bahamian Cydne Jasmin Coleby opens her first solo show at TERN Gallery with “One Of The Boys”, on view from November 30th to January 13th. For its final show of the year, TERN invited the digital and mixed media collage artist to permeate the entire space for the exhibition, exploring the dynamic of bars in local communities of the region.
Self-reflection and the unpacking of childhood or family ordeals have always been an intrinsic aspect of Coleby’s art-making. For this exhibition, she takes still images from video as the basis for her new paintings and examines her family history, trying to understand both her father’s own childhood, the cyclical repetition of certain behaviors, and the need for escapism and self-medication.
The artist’s face and body are common motifs in her artwork and in this new collection, she hovers at the margins — inserting herself as a viewer, eavesdropper, or participant on the sidelines.
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09/08/23
New York Art Week:
Providing an interactive element to the fair, TERN Gallery is presenting a photo booth based on work by Tiffany Smith from her Throned series. With props including a crystal-embellished wicker throne and custom wallpaper featuring botanical drawings native to the Caribbean, the installation invites viewers to activate the empowering and meditative space. They can take photographs of themselves and participate in sittings with Smith, who will be on site Saturday between 3 and 5 PM.
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09/08/23
I Hate to Admit it, But I Loved the Armory Show
“Today, you need to have a story behind the art,” mused Isaac Stein, a New York-based collector, as we stared together at Jenny Morgan’s black-and-white painting of a spectral reclining woman at the booth of Anat Ebgi Gallery. He’s not wrong. Zig-zag your way across the 200-booth floor plan of New York’s Armory Show, back at the Javits Convention Center in Hell’s Kitchen through this Sunday, and you’ll likely overhear snippets of dealers romancing potential buyers with their artists’ sometimes credible, sometimes improbable backstories. You can recite a three-page CV from memory or name-drop that a certain curator passed by the booth, but if you want to sell, you better have something interesting to say.
The 2023 Armory Show had one clear message: The art world can no longer afford to take itself so seriously. And that’s a relief. For the first time in ages, I found myself feeling — dare I say it! — inspired at an art fair.
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05/19/23
Jodi and Drew’s Balancing Act
Artists Jodi Minnis and Drew Weech skewer facile images while also bringing their observations to bear in their personal orbit, baring an intimacy with the viewer in their two-person show “Balancing Act” at TERN Gallery.
For Weech, the performative aspect of tourism can be paralleled with the art world where the creator is also expected to play the act.
Minnis inserted herself into the images to reflect on her own experiences around expectation and desire.
While the content for both artists is profound, there is an allowance for a tongue-in-cheek drollness in the works as the artists balance that fine line between the tragicomic.
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08/19/23
Urban Mysticism: New Exhibit Unites Three Artists in Exploration of Social Stereotypes.
New Providence’s TERN Gallery is spotlighting three emerging artists who all observe the island’s urban environments and landscapes, and who see the importance of the role of mentorship in developing the Bahamian art scene.
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05/19/23
1-54 presents in New York, Sparkling Islands: Another Postcard of the Caribbean
From May 18 to May 21, 2023, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair will hold its ninth New York edition, with a total of twenty-six galleries hailing from across Africa, Europe, Asia and the United States. The fair will present the work of over eighty artists from Africa and its diaspora in a grand modern venue located in Manhattanville Factory District in West Harlem.
Part of the fair this year will be Sparkling Islands: Another Postcard of the Caribbean, an exhibition curated by Caryl Ivrisse Crochemar & [creative renegades society], which will showcase a new generation of contemporary artists from the Caribbean archipelago and its diaspora. On view from May 11 to May 21, the exhibition is conceived as a series of open-ended questions that invite viewers to push beyond superficial portrayals of the archipelago as a sunny tourist destination and reflect the diversity of cultures informing contemporary Caribbean art..
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05/18/23
The 1-54 Art Fair Brings Africa and Its Diaspora Into The Global Mainstream
With a communal history of being “discovered” through Euro-American colonialism, the Caribbean bears the geographic memory of the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. Even after the abolition of slavery, Euro-American colonization continued through extraction of resources. The Caribbean, therefore, is in a unique position to help understand the afterlife of colonization and how it shapes the global response to climate change.
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05/16/23
Manhattan to the Caribbean: 1-54 New York fair expands with group show in Chelsea
Operating on multiple continents is a common strategy for global art fairs, but in the case of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, an international approach is essential to drawing a full picture of African art from the continent and its diaspora. The fair’s New York edition (18-21 May) will be its largest since founder Touria El Glaoui expanded her London-born project across the Atlantic in 2015. This year’s edition takes over Malt House in Harlem’s Manhattanville Factory District, a space that formerly housed Gavin Brown’s Enterprise.
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04/20/23
How Galleries Are Responding to the Effects of Climate Change
With the effects of climate change worsening each year, galleries around the world have had to quickly respond to the ecological challenges affecting their immediate vicinities. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the need for new practices, as supply and demand became strained due to global travel restrictions and the redistribution of resources to aid the pandemic. For many galleries located in regions that have been hit the hardest by climate change—like West Africa, the Bahamas, Southeast Asia, and the southeastern United States—pressing ecological challenges are compounded by limited access to essential resources needed to run a gallery, such as affordable shipping methods and packing materials.
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04/17/23
3 Artists on the Role of the Caribbean in Environmental Art
With a communal history of being “discovered” through Euro-American colonialism, the Caribbean bears the geographic memory of the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. Even after the abolition of slavery, Euro-American colonization continued through extraction of resources. The Caribbean, therefore, is in a unique position to help understand the afterlife of colonization and how it shapes the global response to climate change.
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04/06/23
Fab Five
From Berlin and London to Cape Town and São Paulo, the international modern-art world will converge on the city April 13 to 16 for Expo Chicago. Think of it as a massive pop-up global art museum — one where you can actually purchase the pieces. “You can live in Chicago, travel the world with your eyes, and experience an extraordinary amount of work, from beautiful to provocative,” says Tony Karman, Expo Chicago’s president and director. The scope of international eye candy filling Navy Pier’s Festival Hall will include large-scale sculptures, site-specific works, and limited-edition art books, with artists from 36 countries and 170 galleries represented at this 10th edition of the fair.
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Old Week Home
“Old Week Home,” is a solo exhibition by Bahamian visual artist, Anina Major at TERN Gallery. The artist, who works primarily in ceramics and installation, investigates the relationships between self and place as a way of cultivating moments of reflection and a sense of belonging. “Old Week Home” Major’s first solo exhibition in her hometown Nassau, reflects upon childhood nostalgia, and celebrates the role of women in society, specifically those within the Bahamian straw industry.
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04/14/23
‘Old Week Home’: A love letter to Bahamian culture and homecoming
Anina Major investigates the relationship between self and place as a way of cultivating moments of reflection and a sense of belonging in her solo exhibition “Old Week Home” which reflects upon her childhood nostalgia, and celebrates the role of women in society, specifically those within the Bahamian straw industry.
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In This House Is A Home…
In this house is a home… is the first solo exhibition of new paintings, drawings and sculptures by the artist Heino Schmid, curated by Jodi Minnis.
Born and raised in Nassau, Schmid’s work is heavily drawings based but often includes objects from the landscape—poinciana pods, dried coconut husks, palm leaves, scraps of wood and various building materials—to create bold and forceful installations..
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01/23/23
ART EXHIBITION—HEINO SCHMID’S “IN THIS HOUSE IS A HOME…”
TERN Gallery presents “In this house is a home…,” a solo exhibition of new paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Bahamian artist Heino Schmid. The opening reception takes places on January 26. The exhibition, curated by Jodi Minnis, will be on view until March 11, 2023. The gallery is located at Mahogany Hill, Western Road, Nassau, The Bahamas.
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11/29/22
The Best Booths at Untitled’s 2022 Edition on Miami Beach
TERN Gallery’s booth addresses non-Caribbeans’ institutional and internalized biases towards the Bahamas. “When I say I’m from the Bahamas, the first question I get is if there is art there. It’s so insulting and racist to assume a region or country is incapable of concepts or art,” said Amanda Coulson, gallery founder and director. The booth challenges fairgoers to consider their preconceptions of Caribbean art.
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11/29/22
What to Look for at Untitled Art 2022
Fairgoers should also look out for presentations like a colorful group show by the Dallas-based Galleri Urbane, a trio exhibition featuring the work of Drew Weech, Heino Schmid, and Blue Curry at the booth of Nassau’s TERN Gallery, the soothing geometry of Espacio Valverde’s (Madrid) presentation, and the stained glass-reminiscent works of Amir H. Fallah, on view with the Athens art space Dio Horia.
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11/29/22
The Best Booths at Untitled’s 2022 Edition on Miami Beach
In three stunning paintings, mostly done in shades of black, white, and gray, Drew Weech presents an alternate view of so-called island life. The Bahamian sees his use of black and white as “rebelling” against the typical bright, tropical colors that are typically associated with the Bahamas and other Caribbean islands. In one work, we see a man sweeping on a seesaw; in another, a hand pulls back a curtain showing a person at work on a textile under a bell jar. Weech offers this balancing act to focus on the contrast between “how the Bahamas are presented versus how we identify.” In particular, he’s looking at who has been pushed “front and center to tourists,” he said during the fair’s VIP preview.
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In Situ
In Situ represents the dichotomy of Melissa Alcena’s approach as a both documentarian and fine art photographer who centers Bahamians in their totality. The exhibition comprises over twenty (20) photographs spanning Alcena’s practice over the past five years
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11/04/22
In Situ
An exhibition that pulls together five years of conversations, ongoing relationships, and ever-changing landscapes is being put on display for people’s investigation.
TERN Gallery is presenting “In Situ” a solo exhibition by Bahamian portrait and documentary photographer, Melissa Alcena.
“In Situ” represents the dichotomy of Alcena’s approach as a both documentarian and fine art photographer who centers Bahamians in their totality. The exhibition comprises over 20 photographs spanning Alcena’s practice over the past five years.
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09/28/22
Exhibition deconstructs tourism fantasy
Reimagining tourism’s place in The Bahamas and the Caribbean as a whole, and stripping away the romanticism of the country’s primary industry, Bahamian artist Blue Curry presents a fresh perspective in his latest solo show.
Beach towel flags, casino dice tossed in pink sand, and strobing conch shells are only a few features of this internationally acclaimed Spanish Wells artist’s ‘Leisure Aesthetics’ solo exhibition. It’s also his first local comeback in over a decade.
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April Bey “I Believe in Why I’m Here”
Everyone is fabulous on the planet Atlantica. It’s a whole world of bold fashion, unapologetic bodies and joyful pride.
It’s American artist April Bey’s planet, and at Simon Lee Gallery we all get to live on it for a little while. The walls are lined with pink fur and green satin, draped with images of plants that are half-banana, half-perfectly manicured Black hand. Peering out at you are the citizens of Atlantica, presented in glittery, collaged photos, like portraits of the campest dictators ever. Bey is glorying in queer aesthetic, eclebrating Black bodies. Her planet;’s citizens wear sparkling earrings long perfect nails, floral patterns and pink berets. Atlantica is a place where you can be whatever you want, where difference is a badge of pride, where no one is marginalised for their body or their skin.
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April Bey: I Believe in Why I'm Here
April Bey’s first solo exhibition in Europe, I Believe in Why I’m Here, introduces us to the world of Atlantica, created by the artist over thirty years. The gallery is completely transformed into a magical environment exploding with vibrant life that welcomes and empowers anyone that visits. You’ll meet some of Atlantica’s inhabitants rendered as large- scale portraits in opulent textiles; sherpa, metallic thread and faux Atlantican fur, adorned with glitter, sequins and hand stitching. Across selfie-style closeups and editorial-esque portraits these individuals hold their space, unapologetically themselves.
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09/15/22
Thriving on Atlantica: April Bey & her Speculative Futurism
April Bey’s practice is grounded in the fundamental truth that systems and attitudes don’t need to be the way they are. Through both her striking aesthetic and her conceptual approach, Bey breaks down the false limitations set by the visual arts and society; she expands, melts, and redefines categories and mediums. And in Atlantica, these convictions come to life.
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09/09/22
The Armory Show 2022 Awakens the Fall Season
In Rosenfeld’s booth, we caught eye-catching canvas works and spiky sculptural pieces by José Castiella and Keita Miyazaki; in Eduardo Secci / Marc Straus's space, crowds gathered for a solo show of works hung vertically by José Carlos Martinat; within Volume Gallery's area, we were intrigued by ice-dyed cotton ropes tied with synthetic hair to form intricate sculptures by Tanya Aguiñiga, hung on the walls and suspended from the ceiling; and at the Nassau, Bahamas-based Tern Gallery booth, we had the pleasure of meeting its co-founder, Lauren Perez, who walked us through a colorful presentation of nature-centric works by the Jamaican artist Leasho Johnson and the Bahamian artist Tessa Whitehead.
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07/16/22
TERN Gallery presents “FIVE”: Works by Bahamian artists Brent Fox, Amaani Hepburn, Dyah Neilson, Matthew Rahming, and Keith Thompson
TERN Gallery will present “FIVE”, an exhibition supporting the work of five emerging Bahamian artists, Brent Fox, Amaani Hepburn, Dyah Neilson, Matthew Rahming, and Keith Thompson at the end of this month.
The exhibition, curated by Jodi Minnis, aims to highlight the work of painters, sculptors, and printmakers whose work expands and defies our ideas of “island-life” and pushes our understanding of the limitations of visibility.
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Leasho Johnson: A Deep Haunting
Now based in Chicago, Johnson’s recent work considers the environment of his native country as a way of looking back. Reflecting on the Caribbean as a site of trauma and extraction, the artist sees vestiges of colonialism in the performance of gender — recognizing how ingrained values of domination continue to police social behavior.
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06/17/22
ART EXHIBITION: LEASHO JOHNSON’S “A DEEP HAUNTING”
TERN Gallery presents Leasho Johnson’s “A Deep Haunting.” The exhibition will be on view from June 23 to July 30, 2022, and the opening reception will take place on Thursday, June 23 at 7:00pm (EST). Born and raised in Jamaica, Johnson’s work reconfigures mythic archetypes to evoke embodiments of queerness.
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A Deep Haunting
A Deep Haunting, a solo exhibition of new paintings by the artist Leasho Johnson. Born and raised in Jamaica, Johnson’s work reconfigures mythic archetypes to evoke embodiments of queerness. Johnson’s debut solo exhibition with TERN, A Deep Haunting will be on view from June 23 to July 30 2022, with an opening reception on June 23 at 7pm
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05/26/22
April Bey: Colonial Swag
TERN Gallery is pleased to present Colonial Swag, a solo exhibition of paintings, tapestries and mixed media by artist April Bey. Raised in Nassau on the island of New Providence in The Bahamas and currently residing in Los Angeles, Bey’s interdisciplinary work combines American and Bahamian visual culture and contemporary pop culture into potent and imaginative social critique.
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Colonial Swag – April Bey at TERN Gallery By Angela N Carroll
Colonial Swag, the latest exhibition from mixed media artist and curator April Bey at TERN Gallery in Nassau, Bahamas, considers the history of colonial presence in the Caribbean as source material for a bold series of speculative, futurist works. This writer interviewed Bey about the personal experiences that inspired Colonial Swag.
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04/24/22
Colonial Swag Art Show at TERN Gallery
Issues of colonialism, Anti-LGBTIQ laws and cultural stigmas on display as the TERN Gallery at Island House presents Colonial Swag by April Bey.
Bey says she hopes her show will take people to another place, to examine cultural issues.
You may even see some familiar faces in Bey’s pieces, including Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the second.
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04/21/22
Colonial Swag
Colonial Swag is a solo exhibition of paintings, tapestries and mixed media by artist April Bey. Raised in Nassau on the island of New Providence in The Bahamas and currently residing in Los Angeles, Bey’s interdisciplinary work combines US-American and Bahamian visual culture and contemporary pop culture into potent and imaginative social critique. Her work incorporates elements of feminism, generational theory, Afrofuturism, Afro-surrealism and constructs of race within supremacist systems.
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05/05/22
Brimming with Lush Texture, Mixed-Media Tapestries by April Bey Envision an Afrofuturist World
TERN Gallery presents Stick It, a collage-based exhibition featuring four artists: Cydne Jasmin Coleby, Ronald Cyrille, Gherdai Hassell, and Steven Schmid, on view from January 27th to March 12th, 2022.
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04/16/22
Artist April Bey Imagines the Fashions and Freedoms of an Afrofuturist World in “Homecoming” Exhibition in the Bahamas
TERN Gallery is pleased to present Colonial Swag, a solo exhibition of paintings, tapestries and mixed media by artist April Bey. Raised in Nassau on the island of New Providence in The Bahamas and currently residing in Los Angeles, Bey’s interdisciplinary work combines American and Bahamian visual culture and contemporary pop culture into potent and imaginative social critique.
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02/04/22
Cultural Collage: Four Artists Examine Their Histories in New ‘Stick It’ exhibit
A collage collection of personal histories
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Stick It Group Show
TERN Gallery presents Stick It, a collage-based exhibition featuring four artists: Cydne Jasmin Coleby, Ronald Cyrille, Gherdai Hassell, and Steven Schmid, on view from January 27th to March 12th, 2022.
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Collage-based Exhibition - Stick It
TERN Gallery presents Stick It, a collage-based exhibition featuring four artists: Cydne Jasmin Coleby, Ronald Cyrille, Gherdai Hassell, and Steven Schmid, on view from January 27th to March 12th, 2022.
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12/06/21
Where man-made meets nature
In his newest exhibition, “Splinters and Shards”, Bahamian artist John Beadle showcases his ability to paint, sculpt, and install natural and manufactured materials to create rich textures, lines and dimensions with wood and metal.
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01/22/22
New Exhibition: Stick It (TERN Gallery)
TERN Gallery presents “Stick It,” a collage-based exhibition featuring four artists: Cydne Jasmin Coleby (The Bahamas), Ronald Cyrille (Guadeloupe), Gherdai Hassell (Bermuda), and Steven Schmid (The Bahamas), on view from January 27 to March 12, 2022.
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01/28/22
‘Stick It’ Exhibition Opens at TERN Gallery
Collage-based exhibition featuring Cydne Jasmin Coleby, Ronald Cyrille, Gherdai Hassell and Steven Schmid on view from January 27 to March 12, 2022.
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11/30/21
In Miami, Buyers Hit the Beach for Untitled Art Fair - to Gallerist’s Palpable Relief. Here’s What’s Sold So Far.
Tern’s sales included a $4,000 sculpture by Kendra Frorup to Los Angeles and West Palm Beach collector Beth Rudin DeWoody and three Cydne Jasmine Coleby mixed-media works for $8,000 to $10,000. The gallery’s buyers also included the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., which snapped up a $15,000 sculpture by Anina Major, who currently has work on view (through March 6, 2022) at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York.
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12/06/21
Where man-made meets nature
In his newest exhibition, “Splinters and Shards”, Bahamian artist John Beadle showcases his ability to paint, sculpt, and install natural and manufactured materials to create rich textures, lines and dimensions with wood and metal.
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11/22/21
Carved Organic Patterns Highlight the Natural Wood Grain of Carbonized Mahogany
In Splinters and Shards, artist John Beadle enriches the beauty of wood’s natural grain with a series of gouged dots, line carvings, and smooth, supple curves. His small, circular sculptures and vertical towers accentuate the texture and subtle gradients of carbonized mahogany through etched patterns that reveal the pristine reddish hue peeking through the charred surface. Always highlighting the potential of the raw material, Beadle, whose background is in painting and printmaking, evokes these mediums through layering dimension and motif in a single work and drawing on the subtraction inherent in carving into a blank woodblock.
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11/29/21
John Beadle exhibits “Splinters and Shards”
Nassau, Bahamas-based TERN Gallery hosts “Splinters and Shards,” a solo exhibition of new sculptures by artist and sculptor, John Beadle.
The exhibition runs from Dec. 11, 2021 to Jan. 22, 2022, with an artist reception on Saturday, Dec. 11 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
“Splinters and Shards” marks Beadle’s first exhibition with TERN.
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11/18/21
John Beadle’s “Splinters and Shards”
TERN Gallery recently announced “Splinters and Shards,” a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Nassau-based artist and sculptor John Beadle. The exhibition runs from December 11, 2021 to January 22, 2022, with an artist reception on Saturday, December 11 from 4:00 to 7:00pm. “Splinters and Shards” marks Beadle’s first exhibition with TERN.
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11/22/21
John Beadle: Splinters and Shards
NASSAU, THE BAHAMAS - When I recently visited The Bahamas, I Splinters and Shards is a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Nassau-based artist and sculptor John Beadle. Splinters and Shards marks Beadle’s first exhibition with TERN.
In this new body of work, Beadle combines natural and manufactured materials to create pieces that reference and warp their original forms. Beadle, who trained as a painter and printmaker, applies a similar attitude toward materiality in these sculptures. These new works are examples of Beadle’s ability to merge painting, sculpture and installation, creating a rich sense of line, dimension and texture.
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10/19/21
Exhibition Feature - “The Other Side of the Pentaprism” at TERN Gallery
The Other Side of the Pentaprism (re-)mirrors a vision of the Caribbean as it is, but seldom is seen. The six artists in this show are the pentaprism, filtering their gaze through their creative vision. Revealing a different universe while questioning the “real” one in which we inhabit, the exhibition upsets the narratives and histories many of us have been taught, showing that the norms and status quo are truly mad. Is it not our accepted world that is illogical? A world where the homes of the enslavers are venerated while those of the enslaved are forgotten, where women are valued only for their ability to serve or bear children and where histories are unwritten. These artists present us rather with a world where people exist as more than props within a fabricated backdrop
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09/29/21
Pulling the Caribbean into Conceptual Focus
NASSAU, THE BAHAMAS - When I recently visited The Bahamas, I spoke with Amanda Coulson about TERN Gallery, the new art gallery she cofounded last December with Lauren Perez, and she told me a story that related how the gallery program and their current exhibition are necessary interventions in the conversation on Bahamian art. Coulson told me that while she was in Venice, for the Biennale in 2013, taking in the work of Tavares Strachan at the Bahamian pavilion, a curator she knows emerged from the space exclaiming surprise that the show was "so conceptual". Coulson thought, "Well, yes, we have concepts in the Caribbean." TERN's show, The Other Side Of The Pentaprism, means to reply to that kind of ignorance and soft condescension with beauty, with scrutiny of the artists' identity, and with the determination, all brought together within the concept of how one sees through a camera's lense.
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09/30/21
A New Exhibition of Caribbean Photography Inverts the Tourist’s Lens
Caribbean culture is often envisioned with an outsider gaze. Tropes of the cultural exotic and a land ripe for vacationing illustrate the place without acknowledging its history of entanglement with colonialism and enslavement. The Other Side of the Pentaprism is a beautifully curated photographic counter narrative featuring work from Melissa Alcena, Tamika Galanis, Jodi Minnis, Lynn Parotti, Leanne Russell, and Tiffany Smith.
The exhibition takes inspiration from the pentaprism, the five-sided reflective prism found in a single-lens reflex camera that re-inverts an image, delivering a version of “reality” back to the viewer. The six women artists in the exhibition represent this filter between the Caribbean narratives presented in popular media and history books, and the experiences of those living inside it.
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09/27/21
Caribbean artists alter the reflective gaze in TERN gallery’s new photography exhibition
TERN gallery’s new photographic exhibition “The Other Side Of The Pentaprism: Six Photographers In Conversation” opened yesterday.
The works of six female contemporary artists from the Caribbean: Tamika Galanis, Melissa Alcena, Jodi Minnis, Tiffany Smith, Leanne Russell and Lynn Parotti, are on view until October 30th, 2021.
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09/07/21
These Dealers Founded Their Galleries During the Pandemic. Now, They’re Making Their Big Debut During Armory Week
For some newly minted gallerists, the pandemic merely provided the final push. After nearly a decade running the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (and a stint as director of New York's Volta fair), Amanda Coulson decided it was a time for a change. For some time, she had toyed with the idea of running a gallery to represent Caribbean artists locally, during a moment when blue-chip galleries from overseas were suddenly interested in the region.
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09/09/21
At Future Fair, Discovering Emerging and Undersung Players
New York's newest art fair, future Fair, intends to serve as a change agent - toward "an art market where people are collaborating and co-curating", said Rachel Mijares Fick, who co-founded it with Rebeca Laliberte.
The fair, which holds its first in-person edition at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea, is compact, with 34 galleries - and just 16 large booths, as presenters have been paired (in two instances, tripled) and encouraged to combine forces, on logistics or on a joint artistic offering. "You could be on an awkward date", said Benjamin Tischer, of New Discretions, quickly adding that his booth-sharing, with the Instanbul gallery The Pill, was doing just fine.
The Pill has the fair's standout: the fast-rising French painter Apolonia Sokol's lucid, generous seminude portraits of women, cis and trans, of various races; all of them are people she knows. Her art wears its plural feminism with ease. Tischer is showing ceramic vases scrawled with splendidly neurotic verbiage by the New York artist Cary Leibowitz, plus paintings of glassware and distored faces - a little spooky, a little kitschy - by Jaopo Pegin, an Italian artist with whom Tischer bonded over Instagram.
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09/07/21
Before NFTs, there was Atari. These Miami art shows that dig beneath the obvious
If you’re heading to Nassau, check out the TERN Gallery's "The Other Side Of The Pentaprism: Six Photographers In Conversation", featuring works by Caribbean and diaspora artists Tamika Galanas, Melissa Alcena, Jodi Minnis, Tiffany Smith, Leanne Russel and Lynn Parotti that question conventional narratives. From Aug.26 to Oct.30.
TERN Gallery, Mahogany Hill, Western Road, Nassau, The Bahamas; terngallery.com
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09/03/21
Life through a different prism - Six photographers show us the 'other side'
Six female contemporary photographers from the Caribbean are holding up a mirror to society and showing us a different world. As part of the group exhibition "The Other Side Of The Pentaprism: Six Photographers in Conversation", Tamika Galanis, Melissa Alcena, Jodi Minnis, Tiffany Smith, Leanne Russel and Lynn Parotti are showing us their work at Nassau's newest art hub, the TERN Gallery.
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09/10/21
The Other Side of The Pentaprism: Six Photographers in Conversation
The Other Side Of The Pentaprism (re-) mirrors a vision of the Caribbean as it is, but seldom is seen. The six artists in this show are the pentaprism, filtering their gaze through their creative vision. Revealing a different universe while questioning the “real” one in which we inhabit, the exhibition upsets the narratives and histories many of us have been taught, showing that the norms and status quo are truly mad. Is it not our accepted world that is illogical?
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09/17/21
The Work of 6 Female Caribbean Photographers Coming to TERN
Colonial history is full of stories and visual representations focused on one side, those of the colonialists. People that endured colonial rule are often reduced to stereotypes, and their histories and culture are a mere backdrop for colonial expansion.
While deconstructions of such narratives and representations are more present in recent decades, there are still many miles ahead before old divisions and cultural constructs are dismantled. The forthcoming exhibition at TERN gallery titled The Other Side of the Pentaprism: Six Photographers in Conversation brings together six photographers who look into what we understand as reality and offer us an alternative view.
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08/05/21
‘Notions of Self’ explores Caribbean identity, experience
TERN Gallery, a new gallery in Nassau, Bahamas, presents “Notions of Self,” a multidisciplinary exhibition presenting the work of four contemporary Caribbean artists — Jamaican Leasho Johnson, and Bahamians Dominique Knowles, Heino Schmid and Tessa Whitehead — on view from June 10 – Aug. 23, 2021.
According to Jodi Minnis, TERN Gallery manager and curator of “Notions of Self,” the exhibit reflects on selfhood and identity within a neo-colonial world.
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08/05/21
Caribbean Artists Alter The Reflective Gaze Tern Gallery’s New Photography Exhibition
TERN gallery will present “The Other Side Of The Pentaprism: Six Photographers In Conversation” – a photographic exhibition presenting the work of female contemporary artists from the Caribbean.
The work of Tamika Galanis, Melissa Alcena, Jodi Minnis, Leanne Russell, Lynn Parotti and Tiffany Smith will be shown during the August 26 to October 30 exhibition.
Article
07/15/21
‘Notions of Self’ explores Caribbean identity, experience
TERN Gallery, a new gallery in Nassau, Bahamas, presents “Notions of Self,” a multidisciplinary exhibition presenting the work of four contemporary Caribbean artists — Jamaican Leasho Johnson, and Bahamians Dominique Knowles, Heino Schmid and Tessa Whitehead — on view from June 10 – Aug. 23, 2021.
According to Jodi Minnis, TERN Gallery manager and curator of “Notions of Self,” the exhibit reflects on selfhood and identity within a neo-colonial world.
Press
07/30/21
The Other Side of The Pentaprism
TERN gallery will present “The Other Side Of The Pentaprism: Six Photographers In Conversation” – a photographic exhibition presenting the work of female contemporary artists from the Caribbean.
The work of Tamika Galanis, Melissa Alcena, Jodi Minnis, Leanne Russell, Lynn Parotti and Tiffany Smith will be shown during the August 26 to October 30 exhibition.
Article
07/01/21
Future Fair to Launch First Physical Event in NYC with 34 Exhibitors
After launching virtual instalments during COVID-19, Future Fair has announced its first in-person instalment which will take place at the massive Starrett-Lehigh building in New York City from September 10-12. Rivalling the likes of Frieze and Art Basel in the contemporary art circuit, Future Fair is aiming to provide more dynamic programming with its forthcoming event that will include 34 exhibitors within 16 specially-tailored exhibition rooms across the historic art deco establishment’s 10,000 square-feet of the ground floor.
Press
07/02/21
ARTnews in Brief: Minneapolis Institute of Art Acquires Theodore Roszak Trove—and More from July 2, 2021
The estate of Theodore Roszak has given the Minneapolis Institute of Art more than 800 works on paper by the artist, who is known for his semi-abstract works resembling science-fictional creatures. New York’s Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, which represents Roszak’s estate, facilitated the gift. Robert Cozzolino, the museum’s paintings curator, said in a statement, “This generous gift will help Mia to tell a more dynamic story of modernist drawing and sculpture in the United States, especially because Roszak was a tireless innovator open to new forms and techniques.”
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Press
06/13/21
Three Trinidad and Tobago artists in Atlantic World Art Fair
Three TT artists are exhibiting in the first Atlantic World Art Fair (AWAF) on the fine art website Artsy.net
Press
06/18/21
Leading local artists explore Caribbean identity
A group of the country's best-known artists has come together to reflect on selfhood and identity within a neo-colonial world.
Press
06/10/21
Notions of Self
Notions of Self is presenting at Tern Gallery until August 23, which showcases the work of four Caribbean artists: Tessa Whitehead, Heino Schmid, Leasho Johnson, and Dominique Knowles. All unique in their multidisciplinary style but evoking commonalities in the ways that the works are perfectly complex commentaries on identity.
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Press
06/11/21
ATLANTIC WORLD ART FAIR CONGRESS NINE GALLERIES FROM THE CARIBBEAN LED BY WOMEN
From June 1 to 21, the first version of the Atlantic World Art Fair will be held virtually, an initiative presented by the Artsy platform that seeks to rethink the view of the Caribbean, from within and on its own terms, and that proposes the Atlantic as a possible route to connect with the richness of the variety of cultures, languages and artistic productions of this island archipelago. This is the first time that Artsy has focused closely on artists from the Caribbean.
News
06/03/21
Millions to view Bahamian art at Atlantic fair
MILLIONS of people around the globe will have a chance to engage with the artwork of several Bahamian artists as the local TERN Gallery participates in the Atlantic World Fair this month.
Article
06/05/21
EXHIBITION: “NOTIONS OF SELF”
TERN’s new exhibition, “Notions of Self,” is a multidisciplinary exhibition of four contemporary artists from the Caribbean: Leasho Johnson, Dominique Knowles, Heino Schmid, and Tessa Whitehead, on view from June 7 to August 23, 2021.
Article
06/02/21
Investing in Paradise
Nassau, the Bahamas, is attracting investor interest, despite economic woes elsewhere, as new development triggers a real estate spree. Meanwhile, there is a concerted effort to promote the cultural sector to taste-makers abroad.
Article
06/02/21
TERN Gallery presents “Notions of Self”, exploring the multiplicities of Caribbean identity and experience
Exhibition presents four contemporary artists from the Caribbean engaged in reflection with culture and selfhood through various artistic applications of abstraction
Article
06/01/21
On View: Tern Gallery of Nassau, Bahamas, Presenting Slate of Caribbean Artists at Online Atlantic World Art FairWeek in Review is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.
A NEW ART FAIR showcasing artists from the Caribbean and Atlantic Islands debuted on Artsy May 31. Presented online, the Atlantic World Art Fair features nine galleries offering works by contemporary artists from the Caribbean, the Atlantic Islands, and the wider diaspora in the region. Among the participating galleries, TERN Gallery of Nassau, The Bahamas, is spotlighting 11 artists, including Anina Major, Rodell Warner, Melissa Alcena, Tamika Galanis, Delton Barrett and, working in collaboration, Avira Wright and Jodi Minnis. In addition to her artistic practice, Minnis serves as gallery manager and curator at TERN. CT
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06/02/21
9 Caribbean artists and 36 works at the “Atlantic World Art Fair”
From 1 st to June 21, 2021, the curatorial agency Sour Grass founded in 2020 by Holly Bynoe and Annalee Davis presents nine artists to the Caribbean "Atlantic World Art Fair" (AWAF). This digital exhibition took place on Artsy, it is also the first time that the international platform welcomes artists from our region.net/9-artistes-caribeens-36-oeuvres-a-atlantic-world-art-fair/
Article
06/01/21
The Galleries Championing Artists from the Caribbean Region
For centuries, the Atlantic has served as the transient space that connects the “old” and “new” worlds. As humanity has evolved in its movement through it, reducing the traveling time from months to mere hours, this space has served as a highway for cultural, economic, and social transit. Many islands along the way from point A to point B were submitted to what became the beginnings of many empires of plunder.
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Article
06/01/21
Culture Talk: Lisa Howie on Organizing Inaugural Atlantic World Art Fair, Online Event Features Works by Artists From Caribbean and Atlantic Islands
AS THE GLOBAL ART MARKET, historically centered around Europe and North America, increasingly recognizes the contributions of artists in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, a new art fair is showcasing a region that remains woefully under-appreciated—the Caribbean and Atlantic Islands.
Article
05/27/21
Bahamas TERN Gallery to participate in Atlantic World Art Fair
Art fair to feature nine female exhibitors and over 50 artists from numerous Caribbean countries
Article
05/30/21
Jamaican galleries partner to participate in Artsy’s ‘Atlantic World Art Fair’
Three Jamaican galleries will showcase a selection of work from 25 Jamaican and Caribbean artists to a global audience with their participation in the inaugural online Atlantic World Art Fair, on the world’s leading commercial art platform, Artsy, from June 1-21.
Article
05/25/21
Butterfield sponsor Atlantic World Art Fair
Butterfield, the bank and trust company headquartered in Bermuda, is to be the lead sponsor of the inaugural Atlantic World Art Fair.
Article
05/26/21
TERN GALLERY AT THE ATLANTIC WORLD ART FAIR (JUNE)
TERN Gallery will be participating participation in the Atlantic World Art Fair from June 1-21. Exclusively on Artsy, the Fair will feature the talents of contemporary artists from the Caribbean, the Atlantic Islands and the region’s wider diasporas. Their creative expressions reflect intertwined histories, relations, and cultures informed by Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe.
Article
05/10/21
Atlantic World Art Fair To Feature 9 Exhibitors
By cutting, reframing, and layering, artists, including Rodell Warner and Alanna Fields, encourage a re-viewing of the past.
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Article
05/14/21
Atlantic World Art Fair featuring 9 exhibitors
Atlantic world Art The fair is an online event from June 1st to June 21st, set to feature nine exhibitors (all women) featuring more than 50 contemporary visual artists from the Mid-Atlantic region. It has been.
Article
04/13/21
Artists Breathe New Life into Archives
By cutting, reframing, and layering, artists, including Rodell Warner and Alanna Fields, encourage a re-viewing of the past.
Article
04/16/21
Drew Weech: Ad Paintings
TERN Gallery presents Ad Paintings, a solo exhibition of works byDrew Weech running from April 6th-June 30, 2021.
Article
04/06/21
Art Exhibition:Drew Weech’s “Ad Paintings”
“Ad Paintings” is a new online solo exhibition by emerging Bahamian artist Drew Weech. Ad Paintings runs from April 6 to June 30, 2021, on TERN Gallery’s digital viewing platform.
Article
04/08/21
Drew Weech’s “Ad Paintings” opens at TERN Gallery for Caribbean contemporary art
Bahamian painter Drew Weech displays his collected “Ad Paintings” together for the first time at TERN, inaugurating the gallery’s online viewing platform
Article
03/23/21
Investigative | Introspective
In Augmented Archives, Warner refuses contextualization of the image’s contents, and instead, utilizes animation, colour, and sound to force investigation of their entire compositions. Dates, locations, and identities are purposely omitted, pushing viewers to conceive their own realities. The series becomes a mind-map, piquing curiosity and stretching our imagination to weave our own pattern of Caribbeanness.
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Article
03/29/21
Editors Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Jacob Lawrence Lecture to a Roadside Push to Pay Women Artists
10. “Becoming Buoyant” at Ortega y Gasset Projects
Water becomes a symbol of life and resiliency—simultaneously recalling freedom, healing, and trauma—in this three-person show about Black bodies in the diaspora featuring photographs by Melissa Alcena, collages by Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and watercolors by Adrienne Elise Tarver.
Press
03/04/21
Reviving the Past of Caribbean Diaspora
This Trinidadian artist explores the digital archives of the Caribbean in his recent exhibition “Augmented Archives” at Bahamas’ Tern Gallery until May 14.
Press
03/17/21
Rodell Warner's art of colouring the past
Trinidad and Tobago artist Rodell Warner is colouring the past. His Augmented Archives will be shown in an exhibition at TERN Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas, hopefully in late March. Warner, who is originally from Belmont, Port of Spain, is known primarily for his work in new media and photography.
Press
03/02/21
Caribbean History is Refigured in Rodell Warner’s “Augmented Archives”
Rodell Warner’s photo and digital media exhibition “Augmented Archives” is on view from March 4 to May 14, 2021 at TERN Gallery, the new contemporary art gallery in Nassau, Bahamas, dedicated to spotlighting Caribbean artists.
Press
02/23/21
Rodell Warner’s “Augmented Archives” bridges Caribbean past and present
Through digital intervention, found photographs are re-enlivened as video prints, repairing Caribbean archival memory and celebrating Caribbean spirit in new show at TERN Gallery
Press
01/19/21
TERN Gallery: Revolutionizing Caribbean Art On Bahamian Terms
For years the Caribbean region has patiently waited for reparations to be disseminated to us, as we still seek to heal from the brokenness of our colonial past. The systemic effects are far-reaching and it has affected our perspectives on various facets of our socio-cultural identity; art being one of them.
Press
01/15/21
“Terning” a New Leaf: Gallery aims to place Bahamian art on Global Scale
A newly created gallery is aiming to ensure Bahamian and Caribbean art reaches a global audience. Named after a seabird that has one of the longest migrations of all birds (an average round trip of over 20,000 miles each year), the TERN Gallery was founded by Amanda Coulson and Lauren Perez.
News of the World
01/08/21
Week in Review: Vulva Sculpture in Brazil Incites Controversy
Week in Review is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.
Press
01/07/21
Amanda Coulson Departs National Art Gallery of The Bahamas to Lead New TERN Gallery
Amanda Coulson is stepping down from her post as executive director of the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas to take up the role of founding director of TERN Gallery, a new space in Nassau, Bahamas, dedicated to showcasing and elevating the work of young and emerging Bahamian and Caribbean artists, and to bringing the region’s art scene to greater international prominence
Press
01/05/21
Amanda Coulson Departs National Art Gallery of The Bahamas
Amanda Coulson, who has served as executive director of the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas for nine years, will leave her post in May to join Nassau’s new TERN Gallery as founding director.
Press
01/04/21
New TERN Art Gallery Opens; Amanda Coulson Named Founding Director
TERN Gallery, a new gallery in Nassau aiming to bring Bahamian and Caribbean art to the international stage, has officially opened, with longtime National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) executive Amanda Coulson being named its founding director.
Press
12/27/20
Art Exhibition:
Inherited Values
TERN Gallery is a new exhibition space in Nassau aiming to bring Bahamian art to the international stage. The gallery opened on December 7, 2020 with an exhibition curated by Jodi Minnis entitled “Inherited Values,” featuring work by mixed media artist Kendra Frorup and ceramicist Anina Major. The exhibition will run until February 8, 2021.