Full Description
Documents the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art's exhibition of work by Guyana-born contemporary artist Andrew Lyght and provides new scholarship contextualizing Lyght's work within the history and culture of Guyana and modern art.
This is a venture into the departures, encounters, discoveries, and transgressions that inform Andrew Lyght's artistic practice and life. While living and working for decades in various cultural contexts such as Guyana, Canada, and the United States, Lyght has pursued an extensive inquiry into the mechanics of art making. Curated by Tumelo Mosaka, Andrew Lyght: Full Circle is the artist's first museum exhibition since he moved to Kingston, New York in 2006. Best known for his flexible and volumetric forms, vibrant paintings, and abstract linear drawings, Lyght creates a wide range of works that analyze the structural properties of painting and reanimate pictorial space as an open system. Over the many years he has developed an art form that explores the built environment as a dynamic pictorial subject, introducing new ways of seeing the world around us.
Contents
Introduction
Foreword
Curator Statement
How He Became
In Dialogue with Andrew Lyght
Then thru Now
Historic Guyana
Guyana: A Brief Early History
Guyana in the Eighteenth Century: From Trading Outposts to Plantation Colonies
Full Circle
Andrew Lyght: Running the Race, Keeping the Pace
Andrew Lyght: Rebel and Guardian
Andrew Lyght: He Did It His Way
The Exhibit
Insider Notes
Builder/Fabricator: Studio Gallery Home
The Process: Flight Kite/Linear Dimensions
Set Design
Arc in Full Circle
Acknowledgments
