Victor Davson : Loss and Longing

Victor Davson, director and founder of Aljira, a center for contemporary art, and even an artist of depth of expression, "the loss and longing," a series of paintings and drawings of the early years at Georgetown, Guyana.

The exhibition runs until 24 June at the Studio Art Kedar in Newark. Davson has to investigate himself a fixture in the landscape of the arts in the region, and in his personal memories of his childhood, particularly the annual parade masking visitors who came to his family home the day Christmas.

Davson see the eccentric characters in this culture as a metaphor for the people of the African Diaspora, which had to be transported in their situation, their survival, their creation of their new world.

Guyana traditions are unique, not only as the only English-speaking country on the northern coast of South America, but also as the only part of the largest in the culture of English-speaking Caribbean, which is not confined to an island. Geographically isolated and poor, with swamps and jungles of the border, has developed its own culture, pace

Davson that "Limbo / Anansi" drawings and "Bad to discover Cow Comin 'paintings. His paintings on vinyl LP includes a lot of them a few cents on the put of wonderful power of American culture through the shallow sea on the north-Help explores the meaning and promise of emigration, mainly characterized in terms of the revolution of the 1960s and 70s. His art of anti-colonialism, the second half of the 20th century. Sharing is sexy