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gallery hours:
Monday - Saturday  10am - 4pm
or by appointment (please call (340)773-8169)

School and community groups are encouraged to make appointments to bring groups on weekdays and make an appointment with the gallery to meet the artist or curator when possible.

location:
14AB Peters Rest (behind the Coca-Cola plant)
Christiansted, St. Croix US Virgin Islands
Parking available on premises

Pomp & Ceremony
Hakajaca

Hacajaka's exhibition, part of the worldwide independent jubilee celebration of Ghana,looks at the pomp and pageantry surrounding chieftaincy and royalty in Ghana, perhaps the most unifying, awesome and visually stunning institution in Ghana.

opening reception:
Friday March 16th 2007
5pm - 9pm
other times during regular gallery hours through Friday March 31st 2007

2nd Annual African Market
Thursday - Saturday
10am - 4pm
March 24th, 25th, 26th 2007
Shop for a selection of crafts, clothing, artworks and other African products.

The Bird, The Boy and The Baobab
Toni Lance

Established St. Croix watercolor painter Toni Lance has begun to show more gestural and expressive watercolor studies and large oils that focus on her passion for wildlife. Despite successes with her earlier works and styles, Lance refuses to stop her own growth and evolution as a painter.

opening reception:
Friday February 9th 2007
5pm - 9pm
other times Mon - Sat 11am - 5pm
through Saturday March 3rd 2007

artist talk: Sunday February 25th 2007

   

previous shows...

adrienne brown

Marcia Jameson, Tien Jameson, Renée Davis: No Boundaries
drawings, paintings, sculpture

These three artists and close friends regularly encourage each other to push the boundaries of their work. With a great diversity in training, age, ethnicity, medium and approach, the work of these three might be extremely disparate – but there are threads of theme, color and cultural influence that run through the work of the group and create a narrative.

28 July through 12 August 2006

 

adrienne brown

Adrienne Brown: inconspicuous
drawings and paintings

Ms. Brown is a young self-taught artist whose graphic, large canvases of expressive portraits and graffiti-inspired graphic artwork have caused a buzz at the previous three Good Hope Fine Art exhibitions.

24 June through 15 July 2006

 

Luca Gasperi ©2000

Luca Gasperi : Natural Law
sketches, studies, paintings and prints

Gasperi showed his working studies for the SEA commemorative paintings, and new original paintings that focus on environmental issues on St. Croix. The new 20th anniversary watercolor was unveiled, with high quality giclée prints available in a limited edition of 50.

3 April through 15 April 2006

 

Oil painting by Victor Odoi

African Cabinet: Godfried Donkor, Victor Odoi
performance art, paintings

Two acclaimed artists from West Africa, curated by Ghana's Widdup Coubagy, Curator of the Ghanaian National Theater Gallery. Odoi shows impressionistic paintings of African markets and daily life, and Donkor recreates Victorian-age pageantry through performance art and a series of collage works that explore images of slavery.

3 March through 24 March 2006

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Mark W. Mulherrin: Scene and Unseen
new mixed media paintings

Most of the paintings depict the land or the sea while figures appear and disappear. The canvases used to make these pictures were foraged by the painter, a former St. Croix resident, from the studio of the psychiatric hospital were he teaches visual art. Using the unfinished canvases as an inspiration, he painted on them, leaving only a trace of what was underneath, yet thoroughly interacting with what had been there. The result is a magical combination of accident and intention, a dialogue between strangers across time.

30 July through 13 August 2005

 

Tayo Quaye: Dancing Masquerade
lineoleum block prints

Nigerian printmaker shows a range of works spanning over 30 years. These oversize lineoleum prints on rice parchment tend toward heavy symbolism, and the artist will be visiting St. Croix to answer questions about his works. His works are in the collections of the University of London's SOSA and the Smithsonian Institution.

30July through 13 August 2005

 

mike walsh, sculpture: dreaming in tango

Mike Walsh & Jimena Correa: Metalmorphosis
sculpture, drawings, etchings and prints

Small-scale sculptures and drawings from Mike Walsh, and etchings, prints and printing plates from Brazilian artist Jimena Correa, at Correa Studios, 5 Company Street, Christiansted.

6 through 13 August 2005

 

La Vaughn Belle: Entre mi casa y tu casa
video installations and objects

The show is comprised of drawings, objects and videos inspired by Belle’s four-year investigation in Cuba on the relationship between art and daily life. One of the videos depicts people watching a state sponsored soap opera. Belle was inspired by the experience of walking through the Buena Vista neighborhood during the popular broadcast and being able to listen to the program as she walked. 

26 August through 10 September 2005

 

Kathy Bennett's oil paintings and a uniquely designed chair by Jon Edwards

Jonathan Edwards & Kathy Bennett: Intuitive Art
paintings, furniture, sculpture

St. Croix residents Jonathan Edwards and Kathy Bennett are more well known as a musician and bookseller, respectively, but together they are holding a debut exhibition of their creative visual artwork. Bennett will be exhibiting oil paintings, and Edwards will be showing paintings as well as whimsical furnishings and sculpture.

21 through 23 April 2005

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A closeup of a brown pelican, oil painting by Toni Lance.

Toni Lance: Deep Into The Wing
paintings, video

Lance continues to explore themes of personal significance in this exhibition of ever more experimental watercolors, that includes some of her first largescale oil paintings.

18 March through 2 April 2005
artist talk 1 April 2005

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Two moko jumbie performers from the Guardians of Culture Moko Jumbie troupe perform on the dock by Christiansted harbor.

The Art of Moko Jumbie: A collaborative multimedia Crucian art exhibit

Over 40 local artists participated in celebrating the theme of the Moko Jumbie, curated by Willard S. John. Featured performances by Guardians of Culture Moko Jumbies.

26 February through 12 March 2005

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Luca Gasperi: Three Trees
new watercolors

This show departed from Gasperi's usual images of St. Croix with sojourns in Bermuda and Italy, where the artist has spent extended periods with family and friends. Most of Luca's work aligns with his passion for agriculture instead of focusing on postcard sights, and many of the paintings in this collection depict subtle differences and surprising similarities in farm and wildland areas as seen by a farmer abroad.

22 January through 5 February 2005

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Wayne James: Mahogany Auction

Furniture auction included many antique mahogany pieces. Catalog available.

10 January through 16 January 2005

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Carlyle Chaudruc: Explorations
watercolors

Newcomer Chaudruc shows paintings inspired by her travels to Asia and Africa, and the anticipation of her move to St. Croix from New York City.

3 through 18 December 2004

 

mike walsh, sculpture: dreaming in tango

Mike Walsh: Sin Ropa (without clothes)
sculptures and drawings

Sin Ropa is Walsh’s first solo exhibition of sculptures and drawings, including a series of bronze sculpture pairs. His works have been shown throughout the Virgin Islands, and recently at the 5th Bienal at the Museo de Artes Moderno in Santo Domingo.

16 January through 13 February 2004

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toni lance watercolor: iguana

Niarus Benjamin: The Rock In My Head
oil paintings

Young local artist and art teacher Niarus (nee-ARE-us) Benjamin spent the spring of 2003 working in a new direction – painting portraits of salvation and light. Her new, large-scale oil paintings of rock formations on St. Croix’s north shore form the basis of her new show.

25 April through 10 May 2003

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toni lance watercolor: iguana

Toni Lance: new works
watercolors

Lance takes her passion for birds into an exhibition of paintings that departs from her typical island subject matter and takes the viewer deep into the psyches of her charges: birds and beasts.

28 March through 13 April 2003

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Breadfruit: ©2002 Luca Gasperi

Luca Gasperi: Late Afternoons
watercolors, acrylics on wood panel, scultural stone works

Luca's work is largely inspired by nature, and these works mainly depicts scenes or moods of the late afternoon sun and its effects on the hills, trees and people of St. Croix's south shore.

28 June through 13 July 2002

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