Yes we are still in it!

Woefully absent from this platform, my extreme apologies!  Seems like Instagram and Facebook have dominated the posts for a long while, and it is time to remedy that!

Just a little timeline news.  In 2022 Susan led the team of artists from Grenada to the pavilion at Biennale di Venezia to show off our collective work on Shakespeare Mas. You can get more details from grenadavenice.org/archive It was fabulously successful with over 100,000 people visiting. 

Here is my contribution in painting --

The Grenada Contemporary came off in Late October of 2022 at Art House 473 -- see the catalog here.

And forward ever, the Grenada Pavilion for the  18th Architectural Biennale di Venezia, which you can see at Grenadavenice.org

Teaching a class today!  Professional Practices for Artists

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More to come!

We are open at Expo2020!

After many many months of making plans, making art, making shipping crates, making ourselves crazy, the Grenada pavilion is open in Dubai today!

We hope to share pics with you soon, but in the mean time, meet the Artists!

Couldn't have done this without my colleague Asher Mains, and without the team on the ground in Dubai. Much appreciation to all who worked, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Business of Grenada.

Shanta Cox--you are a rock star!  Stay with us--more info to come. 

Meet the Artists

We have not been idle during this pandemic time.

Susan Mains Gallery is curating the exhibition for the Grenada Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai.

We are not confused, we know that it is 2021.  Expo 2020 will Start on Oct 1 and continue through Mar 22.

Watch the video prepared by the Government Information Service Team.  We are excited!!!

On the road to Dubai

An look back at the unknown...

I have been painting women images for decades, but for awhile I stopped using the adinkra symbols from Ghana.  Too much talk of "appropriation" and who has a right to tell the stories.

My historian Friend John Angus Martin recently said, "I like to think of the unknown as an exploration, a way of finding out truths hidden in our history..."

So here come the ladies again--a bit of mystery still intrigues us, and their allure is a Westindian melange. 

Melange 26" x 22"
Detail from Melange
Melange 26' x 22" acrylic on domestic cloth

Duality 30"x 30" acrylic on domestic
Both 30" x 46" acrylic on coffee bag

Series 2020

Detail Series 2020 DanceDuring lockdown and quarantine and slow economy, (read slooooooowwwwww) I have been painting in the studio.

Series 2020 is about observations of us and our Caribbean culture being affected by the imposed separation required in these times.

My concern is that culture is passed in groups, and we are losing daily what is intrinsicly "us".

These are large works -- 9 ft by 12 ft, executed on raw canvas.  

Series 2020 Dance