| Women with Wild Flowers, 2001
Candido Bido, Dominican
Republic
Oil and acrylic on canvas |
IN JUNE OF THIS YEAR, The World Bank serves as the chair for the sixteenth meeting of the Caribbean Group for Cooperation in Economic Development (CGCED). The CGCED was established in 1977 to provide a single forum for policy makers in the Caribbean countries, given their shared interests and to maintain a direct dialogue with the international donor community. CGCED members include Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, The Bahamas, The Dominican Republic, and Trinidad and Tobago. This selection from the World Bank's art collection samples the wide breadth of creativity in the Caribbean. Several of the artists featured here articulate contemporary directions in painting, such as the abstract works by Ronald Mevs of Haiti. By contrast, Prefete Duffaut's panoramic harbour-view is a refined and elegant example of Haiti's painting tradition. David Boxer of Jamaica is known as the first Jamaican-based artist to produce installation and video art and as Director Emeritus of the National Gallery of Jamaica. Annalee Davis of Barbados uses simple woodcut prints and direct images of houses and roots to explore what it means to be "uprooted" -- whether by choice or force -- and the struggle to find a sense of belonging in a changing world. | 
| Memories of an Exile, 1997
Annalee Davis, Barbados
Linocut sewn onto mulberry Bark hand-made paper |
Ranging from dark, monochromatic prints to vivid, intense color, these works are life affirming -- simultaneously introspective and exuberant. Many of these visually beautiful paintings and prints examine difficult or painful themes. Yet, perhaps because of their aesthetically pleasing nature, they universally engage rather than alienate the viewer. The Bank's art collection also includes important, large-scale works by Andrew Lyght of Guyana and Christopher Cozier of Trinidad, which may be viewed in the lobbies of the "H" and "I" buildings, respectively. The World Bank Art program is pleased to present this exhibit in conjunction with the CGCED meeting and wishes to express its gratitude to Orsalia Kalantzopoulos, Country Director, Latin American and Caribbean region who proposed this exhibit and for her efforts on behalf of the visual arts at the World Bank and Maria del Carmen Cossu of the World Bank Art Program for coordinating this exhibit. Index of artwork exhibited in this exhibition 
| Untitled, 1998
Exil Levoy, Haiti
Acrylic on canvas
|
Ronald Mevs, Haiti
Untitled, 1998
Acrylic on canvas
PN 462174 Ronald Mevs, Haiti
Red Cloth, 1994
Acrylic on canvas
PN 462175 Ronald Mevs, Haiti
On Red Cloth, 1994
Acrylic on canvas
PN 462176 Charles Anatole, Haiti
Cock Fight, 1969
Acrylic on canvas
PN 345863 Prefete Duffaut, Haiti
Ville Imaginaire, 1993
Oil on canvas
PN 462047 Exil Levoy, Haiti
Untitled, n.d.
Acrylic on canvas
PN 345802 Exil Levoy, Haiti
Untitled, 1998
Acrylic on canvas
PN 345805 Ken Abrams, Guyana
Childhood Toys I, n.d.
Acrylic on canvas
PN 345862 Andy Jefferson, Jamaica
The Heavy Load, 1995
Mixed media print, A/P
PN 466538 Andy Jefferson, Jamaica
Ghetto Nights, 1995
Mixed media print, A/P
PN 466536 Andy Jefferson, Jamaica
Out of Many, 1995
Mixed media print, A/P
PN 466537 Gary Dorcinvil, Haiti
Untitled, n.d.
Acrylic on canvas
PN 462205 Victor Jean-Claude, Haiti
Untitled, n.d.
Acrylic on canvas
PN 462180 Victor Jean-Claude, Haiti
Untitled, n.d.
Acrylic on canvas
PN 462178 Victor Jean-Claude, Haiti
Untitled, n.d.
Acrylic on canvas
PN 462181 Victor Jean-Claude, Haiti
Untitled, n.d.
Acrylic on canvas
PN 462179 Omari Ra, Jamaica
Untitled, n.d.
Lithograph, 8/100
PN 473220 Petrona Morrison, Jamaica
Untitled, 1994
Lithograph, 8/100
PN 473221 David Boxer, Jamaica
Icarus, 1994
Lithograph, 8/100
PN 473216 Antoine Smith, Haiti
Untitled, n.d.
Oil on canvas
PN 466532 Annalee Davis, Barbados
Memories of an Exile, 1997
Linocut sewn onto mulberry
Bark hand-made paper
PN 477679 a-c Dieuseul Paul, Haiti
Untitled, n.d.
Acrylic on canvas
PN 462182 Milton George, Jamaica
Untitled, n.d.
Lithograph, 8/100
PN 473215 V. Reuben, Jamaica
Construction Worker, 1976
Woodcut
PN 466540 V. Reuben, Jamaica
Standpipe, 1976
Woodcut
PN 466542 V. Reuben, Jamaica
Mother! Mother! Mother!, 1976
Woodcut
PN 466541 Merissaint Hissaint, Haiti
Untitled, n.d.
Acrylic on canvas
PN 462209 Gary Dorcinvil, Haiti
Untitled, n.d.
Acrylic on canvas
PN 462205 Joss Perdomo, Dominican Republic
Untitled, n.d.
Oil on canvas Rafael Alba, Dominican Republic
Untitled, 2000
Oil on canvas Candido Bido, Dominican Republic
Women with Wild Flowers, 2001
Oil and acrylic on canvas |
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