The National Gallery of the Cayman Islands (NGCI) is pleased to present Medium: The Materiality of Making, a new group exhibition exploring the foundations of art and creative expression, open 25 June through 12 November.
Medium returns to the building blocks of visual art by considering how core elements such as line, form, and colour are utilised to produce medium-specific work. The featured artworks offer a reflection on artistic method and technique, emphasising materials and materiality as integral facets of the creative process. From sinuous sculptural forms to the expressive capacity of colour-rich painting and the traveling lines of charcoal or graphite —this body of work speaks to the innate relationship between artists and their chosen medium through a distinctly Caymanian cultural lens.
Primarily comprised of works from the National Collection, Medium features drawing, painting, sculptural, installation and digital art by 37 Cayman artists, each of whom employ medium and foundational techniques in compelling fashion, according to their unique voice. Featured artists include well-known names such as Wray Banker, Al Ebanks, Bendel Hydes, Gladwyn K. ‘Miss Lassie’ Bush and Horacio Esteban. A full list of artists is included below.
Medium: The Materiality of Making, curated by William Helfrecht with the support of the wider National Gallery team, is on display at NGCI’s main site on Esterly Tibbetts Highway. Admission to the National Gallery and the exhibition is free. Opening times are Monday-Saturday, 10am-5pm. Closed Sundays and Public Holidays. For more information about the exhibition please email Maia Muttoo, Head of Programmes, at education@nationalgallery.org.ky or visit https://www.nationalgallery.org.ky/whats-on/ to learn more.