Flemish-Belgian painter James Ensor grew up in the back of a carnival and theatre store, so naturally he painted things associated with carnival and the theatre, including his 1888 Masks Mocking Death and 1899 Self Portrait with Masks. According to one critic, his...
Outspoken Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros thought that truly substantive art came from a combination of political and aesthetic ideals mixed with modern techniques, as depicted in his 1947 work, Cain in the United States. I reworked that image using the...
My narrative on Grenada’s ShortKnee started in 2005. My work was featured in two conference papers presented by Dr Susan Mains: in 2005 Small Island Art –Potential Untapped at the Ninth Interdisciplinary Congress of the Society for Caribbean...
David Alfaro Siqueiros was a Mexican social painter who depicted the working class’ struggles, social and racial injustice and economic hardship, satirical scenes of social or political protest. As I search for my own artistic voice, my ShortKnee translations are...
Currently I am translating and reinterpreting other artists’ works on war, migration, desolation and isolation, in particular with works featuring pierrot-type figures, as part of a vigorous self-directed visual study of our present day ShortKnee. This character is a...
The work I call Tebou (Carib word for stone) is a posterboard triptych referencing another untitled work by Cuban artist Santiago Olazábal, of a spirit in a stone breathing on a man. Here the ShortKnee seeks and receives the breadth from a stone spirit, against a red...
