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Inter-American Development Bank
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Pictured: Omar Richardson—Bahamas. “Personal Language” (Lenguaje Personal), 2011. Color woodcut, 41 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches. (Inter-American Development Bank Art Collection/©Omar Richardson)
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) presents the exhibition “FLOW: Economies of the Look and Creativity in Contemporary Art from the Caribbean.” This exhibit will be open to the public from June 9 to August 29, 2014 at the IDB Cultural Center Art Gallery in Washington, DC.
The exhibition displays works by 27 artists from various countries including Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname represented in the IDB’s Art Collection as well as art loaned to the exhibition by private collectors, art galleries, and from the artists themselves. The exhibit was curated by art historians Elvis Fuentes (former curator of Museo del Barrio in New York) and Meyken Barreto. The exhibition explores the way in which creative popular expressions, often dismissed as minor arts, are employed by Caribbean artists to critically comment on today’s image-driven cultures.