Caribbean Artist Alison Wells talks of home and place in her recent paintings at the Brookline Art Center Gallery
“Home is Memory, Memory is Now” which opens at the Brookline Art Center Gallery on August 29, 2011 through October 7, 2011, offers compelling insights into group relationships and cultural bonds that transcend geographic and historic differences. In her recent body of work Trinidadian Artist Alison Wells discusses ideas of culture, identity and the shifting concepts of home and place.
“The vital role we all play within our communities conveys a universal message of home being an instrument of culture and Power. It can be interpreted literally when we are inspired by different landscapes and sceneries but also we can be inspired by a certain identity associated with specific places we call home” says Wells.
In Alison’s acrylic and mixed media works on paper and canvas, paint melts in and out of ambiguous space throughout the picture plane reminiscent to fragments of memories, constantly soaring in and out of the conscious and subconscious mind.
Wells’s paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States, the Caribbean and Europe, and her work was selected to represent her country at the 2010 World Exposition in Shanghai, China.
Opening Reception for “Home is Memory, Memory is Now” is Saturday, September 10, 2011, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. and it is supported in part by the Brookline Commission for the Arts, a local group which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. The exhibition will culminate with a mixed media collage workshop for kids and teens on theme of home and place.
Blue Moon Eclipse, Acrylic on paper, 9"x12" 2011
