January 27, 2022 - March 22nd, 2022
Stick It
Cydne Jasmin Coleby
Ronald Cyrille
Gherdai Hassell
Steven Schmid
Stick It is a collage-based exhibition featuring four artists: Cydne Jasmin Coleby, Ronald Cyrille, Gherdai Hassell, and Steven Schmid.
Amalgamating images, textures, and textiles and remixing these resources into new compositions whether digitally, paper-based, or through mixed media is an integral act in the collective approaches of the exhibited artists. Within this collecting and re-presenting, each artist weaves their histories and curiosities into the fabric of the work, giving space for the audience to present their own.
Cydne Jasmin Coleby
Cydne Jasmin Coleby (b. 1993, Nassau, The Bahamas) is a digital and mixed media collage artist based in Nassau, The Bahamas. Throughout her childhood, Coleby remembers disassociating herself from her body, questioning aspects of her being and how they are perceived by others. But even with this awareness, she has been unable to elude conditioning’s grasp.
Ronald Cyrille
Ronald Cyrille (b. 1984, Guadeloupe) is a visual artist and muralist. His approach is a combination of reliefs, Caribbean landscapes, and animals from his bestiary. His characters are sometimes two-headed, sometimes with disproportionate limbs or composed of tree branches, leaves or attributes of animals living in the Caribbean basin. The Kreyol dog is one of the main characters in his pictorial narratives.
Gherdai Hassell
Gherdai Hassell (b. 1991, Paget, Bermuda) is a China trained, multidisciplinary contemporary artist, writer and storyteller, based in Manchester, UK. Her work investigates memory and nostalgia to create unexpected narratives surrounding identity. She uses collage to thread and weave histories, and tales of transformation passed down through family lineages. Her work typically centers female bodies, simultaneously existing within realms of past, present, and future.
Steven Schmid
Steven Schmid (b. 1987, Nassau, The Bahamas) is a Bahamian interdisciplinary artist whose practice utilizes drawing, painting and collage to explore themes of nostalgia, masculinity and otherness. Using the figure as a central point of exploration, Schmid reimagines personal narratives to create unique stories that illustrate the intricacies and malleability of the Bahamian and wider Caribbean diaspora.