Lips, Sticks and Marks (1998)
The traveling exhibition Lips, Sticks and Marks (1998), featured the artwork of seven women from four Caribbean islands. Questions concerning how our artistic practices were viewed and received within our individual spaces created the decision to exhibit together outside of “normal” curatorial constructions.
Lips created a spin-off exhibition Sparks From Marks, featuring a satire on Jamaica’s National Gallery titled German Expressionism Well Installed (1998), in which Jamaican nationalism – and the more personal agenda of its late Curator Emeritus – are explored through the compromising position of one of its more partisan and entitled expatriate writers.
Black Pearls (1998), 48 x 40 inches, oil on linen
It must be a Duppy or a Gunman (1998), 48 1/2 x 31 inches, oil on linen on hardboard mounted on wooden panel
Learning How To Glide (Series) Painting 1 (1998), 12 x 10 inches, oil on linen
If This Is The Present, Imagine The Future (Sparks From Marks series) (1998), 10 x 10 inches, oil on hardboard with marine varnish
German Expressionism Well Installed (Sparks From Marks series) (1998), 10 x 10 inches, oil on hardboard with marine varnish
Wanting To Be Well (Sparks From Marks series) (1998), 10 x 10 inches, oil on hardboard with marine varnish
Another Slippery Hand (Sparks From Marks series) (1998), 10 x 10 inches, oil on hardboard with marine varnish
Crane Beach (Sparks From Marks series) (1998), 10 x 10 inches, oil on hardboard with marine varnish