Kara Springer, untitled, from Repositioned Objects, St. Philip, Barbados, 2014
Drexel's Leonard Pearlstein Gallery
3401 Filbert Street, URBN Center Annex
Philadelphia, PA
September 19 - December 10, 2017, Tues-Sun, 11:00am-6:00pm
Opening reception, Thursday, September 28, 5 - 7
The Expanded Caribbean features work by sixteen emerging and established artists with projects based in several different nations and communities neighboring the Caribbean Sea. The exhibition brings together images that document, interrogate, challenge, and otherwise engage the meaning of place in an area with a rich and complex history as a target of exploration and conquest, voluntary and forced migration, trade, travel, and tourism. Responding variously to cultural, historical, mythological, and personal aspects of the greater Caribbean, artists initiate dialogues about how events of the past inform contemporary experience in a continually shifting and evolving environment.
To view or purchase the exhibition catalog that includes images of all works as well as contextual scholarly essays by Mimi Sheller, Professor of Sociology at Drexel University, and Susanna W. Gold, Curator, click here.
