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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2014
LEASHO JOHNSON
OPEN STUDIO

Sunday, October 19


NLS is pleased to welcome Leasho Johnson, our current studio artist. Johnson's workspace at NLS will be open to the public this Sunday from 2 - 5 p.m. Come by to see his work in progress first hand and see what goes into his creative process.

This event is free and open to the public. Complimentary donuts from Pastry Castle.

Sunday, October 19, 2 - 5 p.m.
NLS + Creative Sounds
190 Mountain View Avenue (across from the National Stadium)
Kingston 6
 
SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 2014
NLS + ARC
(E)MERGE ART FAIR

Above: Image courtesy Mark King

NLS and preeminent Caribbean contemporary art publication ARC Magazine collaborate to present an exhibition at (e)merge art fair of work by James Cooper (Bermuda), Stephanie Cormier (Canada), Ian Deleón (Cuba/Brazil), Nadia Huggins (St. Vincent & The Grenadines), Leasho Johnson (Jamaica), Becca Kallem (Washington, DC), Mark King (Barbados), Oneika Russell (Jamaica), Anabel Vasquez Rodriguez (Puerto Rico) and Storm Saulter (Jamaica). The exhibition connects a contemporary sensibility across national borders in which the delicate nature of humanity and its complex dependency on the economic, environmental and cultural context that it also has a hand in molding is forefront.

The exhibition is curated by Deborah Anzinger and Holly Bynoe.

(e)merge

October 2 - 5
Capitol Skyline Hotel


 
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2014
IN:
COLLECTING CONTEMPORARY ART


Join NLS for the next episode of IN on August 18, during which a panel of gallerists, dealers, and collectors tells us what it takes to collect contemporary art.
 
 
THURSDAY, JUN 26, 2014
CANOPY GUILD
CLOSING RECEPTION
Above: Image courtesy Ayana Rivière and Rodell Warner

Join NLS for the closing reception of Canopy Guild during the KOTE 2014 festival on Thursday, June 26 at 7 PM.
 
 
THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2014
IN
EBONY G. PATTERSON
CAMILLE CHEDDA
MICHELLE SERIEUX
SUSANNE FREDRICKS
KEMAR HAY

Please join NLS for the rebroadcast of this month's episode of IN featuring an online conversation about performance art piece Invisible Presence: Bling Memories by Ebony G. Patterson. The conversation will be between Ebony G. Patterson, Camille Chedda, Michelle Serieux, Susanne Fredricks, Kemar Hay and host Nicole Smythe-Johnson.

The conversation takes place live online on Wednesday, June 4 at 9:00 PM EST and 10 PM EDT live on the NLS youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCopVuxfYsATdTGLvH5Wa8VQ, where it will be archived.

More information about IN
 
 
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2014
CANOPY GUILD
RODELL WARNER
AFIFA AZA
AI YOSHIDA
AYANA RIVIÈRE
DI-ANDRE C. DAVIS
LEASHO JOHNSON
STORM SAULTER


New Local Space is proud to invite you to the opening of Canopy Guild a collaborative group exhibition of work by Rodell Warner, Afifa Aza, Ai Yoshida, Ayana Riviere, Di-Andre C. Davis, Leasho Johnson and Storm Saulter. These seven artists worked together for the last 7 weeks on a project conceived by Rodell Warner to bridge creatives in the Kingston art scene via digital patterns Warner created from nature photographs. Each artists reinterpreted Warner's patterns to create a piece for this exhibition. Please join NLS to witness the culmination of this ambitious project.

Opening reception: Friday, May 9 from 7 - 9 PM,
NLS, 190 Mountain View Avenue, Kgn 6

Exhibition runs from May 9 - May 31 (by appointment only)


Read more.

 
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014
IN:
CHARLES CAMPBELL
KRISTA THOMPSON
CLAIRE TANCONS
KEMAR BLACK
NATASHA LEVY

Please join New Local Space (NLS) for this month's episode of IN. This month we feature an online conversation about performance art piece Fractal Engagement with artist Charles Campbell, En Mas curators Krista Thompson and Claire Tancons, collaborating artist and Matthew's Lane resident Kemar Black, and public participant Natasha Levy. IN host Nicole Smythe-Johnson will be speaking with our five guests about undertaking the ambitious, interactive performance piece Fractal Engagement, which was a groundbreaking endeavor for Campbell's art practice.

The conversation takes place online on Thursday, May 1 at 9:00 PM EST live on the NLS youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCopVuxfYsATdTGLvH5Wa8VQ, where it will be archived.

Thursday, May 1, 9 - 10 PM
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCopVuxfYsATdTGLvH5Wa8VQ
 
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2014
FLOAT
Leasho Johnson, Marlon James, Rodell Warner, Deborah Anzinger



New Local Space collaborates with Transformer in the presentation of group exhibition FLOAT in Washington, DC. In the contemporary moment, “the nation” dominates much Caribbean image-making, often posited as a post-colonial response to oppressive, externally- derived constructions. This focus is shifted by the artists in FLOAT, and further curated into a détournement in which these hegemonic conceptions of social and national identity (and the status of “margin” itself) are declared compromised and inadequate. The proposed exhibition posits a renegotiation of identity; untethered by the limits normally placed on that now over-worked concept, and insistent on the recognition of the invisible but central role that the “margins” play in the making of our cosmopolitan present and future.

Curated by Nicole Smythe-Johnson.

Exhibition essay

Opening reception: May 17, 2014
May 17 - June 21

Transformer
1404 P Street
Washington, DC 20005

SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2014
IN: Live with Mari Robles of Perez Art Museum of Miami (PAMM)

Image courtesy Pérez Art Museum Miami

Please join New Local Space for this month's episode of IN, which will feature an online conversation with Mari Robles, Knight Curator of School Programs at the Pérez Art Museum of Miami (PAMM). Mari, along with Associate Curator of PAMM, Diana Nawi will be visiting Jamaica later this month to familiarize themselves with the local art community. Our host Nicole Smythe-Johnson will be speaking with Mari about her curatorial practice and work at PAMM.

Live online, Wednesday, March 12 at 9:00 PM EST on the NLS youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCopVuxfYsATdTGLvH5Wa8VQ, where it will be archived.
 
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014
IN
Live with
Charles Campbell,
Chajana DenHarder &
Jessica Knight
Image courtesy Jessica Knight

Nicole Smythe-Joshnson, Senior editor and Art Writer of ARC Magazine will be talking with artists Charles Campbell, Chajana DenHarder and Jessica Knight about how graduate school has factored into their careers as artists thus far. The conversation steams live Wednesday, January 8, 8:30 PM on the NLS Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCopVuxfYsATdTGLvH5Wa8VQ.

More about the artists here.
More about IN here.