Blue Curry
Untitled artwork by artist Blue Curry using a customised cement mixer filled with sun cream for the 6th Liverpool Biennial.
Blue Curry (b. Nassau, Bahamas, 1974) is an artist living and working in London, UK who works primarily in sculptural assemblage and installation art.
Education and career
Curry is a graduate of the MFA Fine Art program at Goldsmiths College, London where his final show was listed as one of the ten best in the country by the former editor of Art Review magazine.[1] He was selected for inclusion in the Catlin Guide to the 40 important emerging artists in the UK in 2010[2] and listed as one of The Independent newspaper’s ‘Future Art Stars’.[3] He was profiled in a BBC documentary ‘Goldsmiths: But is it Art?’ which charted his progress through art college and his experiences on the London contemporary art scene.[4] Adrian Searle, chief art critic of The Guardian newspaper proposed that Curry's 'swanky electric-blue cement mixer' installation filled with coconut sun cream might be a place for him to stick his head to sooth away his doubts about the 2010 Liverpool Bienniall.[5] In one of his earliest works Curry transported almost a ton of sand to Germany for exhibition and then returned it to the beach it came from in The Bahamas for the group show "Funky Nassau" at The Nassauischer Kunstverein, Germany. He has also shown work at Art Basel Miami Beach, The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C. and The Musée International des Arts Modestes, France. He has work in the collections of The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, The Principal Art Group and many private collections. He has been a member of the Popop collective of artists from 2000 to present.
Exhibitions
- 2013 | Duo show with Ingo Gerken, LoBe, Berlin.
- 2013 | 40 years of Bahamian Art, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
- 2013 | Creekside Open selected by Paul Noble, A.P.T., London.
- 2013 | The West 10th Window, Time Equities Art in Buildings Program, New York. (solo)
- 2013 | Misuse: Creating Alternatives, Cass Gallery, London.
- 2013 | Legacy: Five Schemes, First Variation, KARST Projects, High Cross House, Devon.
- 2012 | Zu Hause/At Home, LoBe, Berlin.
- 2012 | Confined, NEST, The Hague, the Netherlands.
- 2012 | Friday Late: Flying High, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
- 2012 | Earth Works, P.P.O.W, New York.
- 2012 | The Global Caribbean, Fondation Clément, Martinique.
- 2012 | Year One, Toomer Labzda, New York.
- 2012 | New Works, AF Projects, London. (solo)
- 2012 | Tryouts, Down Stairs Gallery, Great Brampton House, Herefordshire.
- 2012 | Into the Mix, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, Kentucky.
- 2012 | Mad March Hares, Vegas Gallery, London.
- 2012 | Powerless Structures, Schwartz Gallery, London.
- 2011 | Stranger than Paradise, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany. (solo)
- 2011 | Solo Presentation, Toomer Labzda, New York. (solo)
- 2011 | Emergency5, Aspex, Portsmouth.
- 2011 | About Change in the Caribbean and Latin America, The World Bank, Washington DC.
- 2011 | Wrestling with the Image, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC.
- 2011 | Terms of Decision, Visual Arts Platform, Austrian Cultural Forum, London.
- 2011 | Caribes Globales, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Puerto Rico.
- 2011 | Trove, Deptford X, London. (solo)
- 2011 | Modern Frustrations, Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London.
- 2011 | Vessel, Stonehouse, Plymouth.
- 2011 | Assembly, Bearspace, London.
- 2011 | Dragging Anchor, Low&High, Folkestone Triennial Fringe, Folkestone. (solo)
- 2011 | So Here We Are, Kunstverein Speyer, Germany.
- 2011 | Duo Exhibition, Nextex, St.Gallen, Switzerland.
- 2010 | City States, 6th Liverpool Biennial, Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool.
- 2010 | 1st Triennial of Caribbean Art, Museo de Arte Moderno, Dominican Republic.
- 2010 | Anticipation, Selfridges Ultralounge, London.
- 2010 | NE5: Fifth National Exhibition, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
- 2010 | Nowhere in Peculiar, Five Hundred Dollars Gallery, London.
- 2010 | Stardust Boogie Woogie, Monica Bobinska Gallery, London.
- 2010 | Global Caraïbes, Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète, France.
- 2010 | The Assistant, Bearspace, London.
- 2009 | The Global Caribbean, Art Basel Miami Beach.
- 2009 | Rockstone and Bootheel, Real Art Ways, Connecticut.
- 2009 | SoShow!, ShopAt34, London.
- 2009 | I Know a Friend That Knows a Friend, Het Poortgebouw, Rotterdam.
- 2009 | Hack Gold, (Space) Project Space, London.
- 2009 | Group Grope, Area 10, London.
- 2009 | R.I.P, Peacock Projects, London.
- 2009 | Collections Within Collections, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
- 2008 | 4th National Exhibition, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
- 2008 | Carifesta, Caribbean Festival of the Arts, Georgetown, Guyana.
- 2008 | Setups Situations Solutions, Popopstudios, Bahamas.
- 2007 | Into Position, Bauernmarkt 9, Vienna.
- 2007 | Work!, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami.[6]
- 2007 | The Next Level Guerilla Show, Photographers' Gallery, London.
- 2007 | Domesticalia: The Politics of Repression’, Standpoint Gallery, London.
- 2007 | Bahamian Art: Pre-Columbian to the Present, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
- 2006 | Funky Nassau: Recovering an Identity, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Germany & National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
- 2006 | Exit, Popopstudios, Bahamas.
- 2006 | 3rd National Exhibition, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
- 2006 | Debris, (with Heino Schmid) Nassau, Bahamas.
- 2005 | Alumni Art Exhibition, Tang Gallery, Skidmore College, New York.
- 2005 | Interim, The Muse Gallery, London.
- 2005 | National Collection Exhibition, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
- 2005 | Love, Popopstudios, Bahamas.
- 2004 | 2nd National Exhibition, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
- 2004 | Survey of Contemporary Bahamian Art, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
Bibliography
- De los últimos creadores de mapas: Pensamiento crítico y exposiciones colectivas de arte caribeño contemporáneo (1990-2011), Dominique Brèbion and Carlos Garrido Castellano, Alpedrete (Madrid), 2012.
- Blue Curry: Art, Image, and Objecthood, Dr. Erica James, ARC Magazine, October, 2012.
- Hinter der Schlangenhaut, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 6 June 2011 .
- Stranger than Paradise, Caribbean Review of Books, November, 2010 .
- Beyond the Tropical Veneer: Sun Cream and the Aesthetics of Leisure, NN [Arbeitstitel]/NN [Working Title], Forum Stadtpark Publications, Graz, Austria, 2010.
- The Catlin Guide 2010: New Artists in the UK .
- Art in the Caribbean: An Introduction, Anne Walmsley & Stanley Greaves, New Beacon Books, London, 2010.
- World-Class Exhibit Focuses on the Art of the Caribbean Miami New Times, January 14, 2010 .
- New Caribbean Art Showcased During Art Basel Fair, Associated Press, December 4, 2009 .
- Colorful, Witty, Noisy: A West Indies Mélange, The New York Times, December 6, 2009 .
- Repairwork, Artist Contribution, Small Axe, vol 12 no. 2, June, 2008.
- Bahamian Art Goes Beyond Tourist Trade, The Miami Herald, August 19, 2007.
- When Art Offends, The Nassau Guardian, July 14, 2007.
- No Abstract Art Here: The Problem of the Visual in Contemporary Anglo-Caribbean Art', Small Axe, Vol 11, No. 2, June, 2007.
- Debris, Self Publication (with Heino Schmid), Susak Press, London, 2006.
- Like Taking Sand to the Beach', Next Level, May, 2006.
- Blut, Sand, Wasser', Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 12, 2006.
- Relax? Just do it', Spike Art Quarterly, Summer edition, 2006.
References
- ↑ "Catriona's Top Graduates of 2009." Catriona Warren. murmurART. October 5, 2009 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-11-30. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
- ↑ "The Catlin Guide 2010: New Artists in the UK." Justin Hammond (ed.) 2010.
- ↑ Jennifer Fisher. "Celebrating Future Art Stars." The Independent. January 12, 2010.
- ↑ "Goldsmiths: But is it Art?" Dragonfly Productions for BBC 4. Part One aired April 12, 2010. Part Two aired January 19, 2010.
- ↑ Adrian Searle. "Back in Business at the Liverpool Biennial." The Guardian. September 20, 2010.
- ↑ Carlos Suarez De Jesus (August 23, 2007) "Pop! Go the Easels", Miami New Times. Retrieved 2013-09-11.
External links
- Artist's website
- This is Tomorrow Profile: Blue Curry
- Caribbean Artists A-Z | Petrine Archer Straw
- Goldsmiths Degree Show 2009
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