Jamaican-born, New York-based visible artist Cheery Stewart-Josephs will convey her imaginative and prescient to life with ROOTED, a two-day artwork exhibition that transforms the grand halls of the Jamaica Pegasus Lodge right into a energetic celebration of id, resilience, and rebirth. The exhibition will happen on August 21–22.
Extra than simply an exhibition, ROOTED is a deeply private homecoming. For Stewart-Josephs, this marks a long-awaited return to Jamaica’s artwork scene after years of cultivating her craft overseas. The artist’s journey traces again to the cool hills of Manchester, the place her self-taught skills in drawing and portray first bloomed. These childhood in rural Jamaica, surrounded by lush landscapes and wealthy cultural traditions, proceed to encourage her work in the present day.
Stewart-Josephs grew up within the cool hills of Manchester, the place she developed a self-taught expertise for drawing and portray. She studied briefly on the Edna Manley Faculty of Artwork in Jamaica and the Visible Faculty of Arts in New York Metropolis earlier than persevering with her impartial creative journey. Her early work attracted the eye of artwork critic Ansel Walters, founding father of the Trafalgar Artist Cooperative, the place she joined a bunch of practising artists who operated a roadside gallery alongside Trafalgar Highway in Kingston within the Seventies.
Over the a long time, Stewart-Josephs’ artistry has gained worldwide recognition, together with her choice for Artwork in August — a 2021 digital exhibition organized by the Port Authority of NY and NJ.
Now, with ROOTED, she returns to share 21 brand-new works that intertwine conventional and up to date Jamaican artwork kinds, each bit carrying tales of heritage, endurance, and transformation.
The occasion opens with a night reception on Thursday, August 21 at 7:00 p.m., adopted by a pop-up exhibition on Friday, August 22 from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Artwork lovers, collectors, and cultural fans could have the chance to immerse themselves in Stewart-Josephs’ imaginative and prescient — one which displays each her Jamaican roots and her world creative journey.
ROOTED guarantees to be greater than an exhibition; it’s an invite to reconnect with the essence of Jamaican id, seen by way of the eyes of an artist who has carried her island’s heartbeat together with her throughout continents.
