Acrylic and ink on canvas In these paintings, I look closely at sargassum—that golden weed of the sea, once drifting quietly in the open Atlantic, now washing up in thick, suffocating blankets on Caribbean shores. What once moved freely with the tides now arrives swollen, fermenting in the sun, turning our beaches into sites of […]
Read more "Sargassum (2025)"***AI Summary*** In March, the writer participated in an artist residency in Santa Rosa de Cuevo, Bolivia, curated by Mimmo Roselli, which brought together nearly 100 international creatives to collaborate with the Guarani people. Shifting from portraiture, the artist explored net-making as a symbolic and material practice, inspired by Homer’s Odyssey and Derek Walcott’s Omeros. […]
Read more "Festival Internazionale delle Arti Santa Rosa: La Odisea (2025)"Puzzling 3 puzzles and 3 photo prints on canvas, 30”x40” Dreaming well with this work involves visually processing something that you can’t see. In March of this year I was diagnosed with type II diabetes and since then, everyday feels like solving a puzzle. Whether dealing with high and low levels of glucose, or wondering […]
Read more "“Puzzling” 7th Grenada Contemporary Exhibit (2024)"This series of paintings, started in 2024, reflect on the nature of memory and perception as well as looking at the unposed, unstaged, common scenes in Grenada. Loose gestural strokes give impressions of scenes without highly detailed or rendered forms – much like how our brains remember things. “Ashanti Footprints” 2024 48″x50″, Acrylic and Ink […]
Read more "“Unstaged” Series (2024)"Errantry is a visual summation of Édouard Glissant’s concept of the driving force that compels cultures and individuals to seek out the Other in order to complete themselves. Representations of the sea, stars, and nomadism sum up Glissant’s thought, “Sometimes, by taking up the problems of the Other, it is possible to find oneself.”
Read more "Errantry – 5th Anniversary Art House 473 Exhibit (2023)"“… restoring liberating, catalysing, and dangerous power to the object, that he gives back the profaned object its dignity of mystery and its radiant force…” Aimé Césaire, Calling the Magician, Haiti-Journal (20 May 1944) on Andre Breton My work for the 6th Grenada Contemporary, based on Aimé Césaire’s, “Calling the Magician” takes a step beyond […]
Read more "“Opacité” – 6th Grenada Contemporary (2022)"Working with several other artists from Grenada over the past year as Cypher Art Collective, I am introducing this work as part of a local embodiment of long-term work of mine, Empathy of Place. I believe that the objects around us and the environment we live in contribute, poetically, to our identities. Further, the act […]
Read more "Empathy of Place: Carriacou’s Shakespeare Mas. 59th Biennale di Venezia, Grenada National Pavilion (2022)"In 2021, Susan Mains Gallery curated work for the World Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This is a short video of me talking about my work, Sea Lungs, and the Masked Women series.
Read more "Grenada Pavilion Expo Dubai 2020 (2021)"Here is a collection of work that came out of the life drawing sessions at Art House 473. I moved to working on canvas and domestic as I was unsatisfied with the amount of paper I was using for our short poses (45 seconds, 5, and 10 minutes). I started trying to capture all of […]
Read more "Tumble Figures (2020 – 2021)"These are some drawings I had done around 1999. I would have been 15. I’m not sure that I remember exactly what these may have been inspired by other than thinking through forms and surfaces. There was definitely an embrace of speculative potentials in these drawings/drawings of sculptures/installations. Enjoy these throwbacks of a very different […]
Read more "Early Surrealist Drawings (1999)"This is some of the art that I did during Grenada’s Covid-19 lockdown from March to July, 2020. I took the time to try to reflect some of the common visuals of the time in a variety of techniques and mediums.
Read more "Art in Quarantine (2020)"This body of work is a starting point to launch further lines of inquiry regarding interpreting, producing, and consuming art in a dialogic mode as an initial premise. Poetic Architecture is about a philosophy of relation. More will be posted after the opening on Friday, February 21st! Poetic Architecture Asher Mains A Philosophy […]
Read more "Poetic Architecture (2020)"Burning Beach/You Are Here installation for the 5th Grenada Contemporary Exhibit 2019 at Art House 473, presented by Susan Mains Gallery. Glissant’s description of the burning beach is sober and chilling. He describes the sand, sun, and sea in almost lyrical prose, encapsulating a visitor’s vision of the beach before adding in his own sentiment […]
Read more "Burning Beach/You Are Here (2019)"This series, enamel on paper and enamel on ripstop is just a little exploration into an element that is included in many Northern Renaissance paintings called “Vanitas” that is intended to remind us of our mortality. This “Memento Mori” type of series plays with that reminder of mortality and at time feels like it is […]
Read more "“Vanitas” Series (2019)"Begun after Spicemas (Grenada Carnival) 2019, this series mines the beauty of J’ouvert – the oil covered, early Monday morning street party of Carnival. While the beauty of fancy mas or “pretty mas” is apparent – all of the work by the designers and costume builders have already been done. I am interested in the […]
Read more "J’ouvert Series (2019)"For the past two years I have been making original posters for the Grenada Chocolate Festival in a limited run of 20. This year I focused on the iconic shapes of the cocoa tree as well as using my homemade, natural ink for the shape of Grenada.
Read more "Grenada Chocolate Festival 2019 Posters"After the 8 pieces that made up the installation Sea Lungs was stolen in Venice at the end of 2017 by Omar Donia, I am recreating the series from the stencils I still have. The recreation of this series is like pulling the pieces through time and space and reclaiming them. It is at times […]
Read more "Sea Lungs: New Iterations (2019)"A considerable amount of my time an energy in 2018 and so far in 2019 has been getting Art House 473 off the ground! In a partnership with Susan Mains and Susan Mains Gallery, we have bought what used to be a Pentecostal church in the heart of Calliste to use as an art centre […]
Read more "Art House 473 (2019)"In LaLuna’s “Enchanted Forest”, a space made available to artists in Grenada to install sculptures and land art, I see it as a contemplative space. My contribution, “Burnt Cube” is entirely contemplative and designed to play with the way we view natural spaces. The cube “frames” parts of the wooded area from all directions. The […]
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