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)"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)"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)"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)"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)"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)"“History a forgotten, insomniac night; History and elemental awe are always our early beginning, because the fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world, in spite of History.” Derek Walcott in his Nobel lecture, The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory, explores the diverse lineage of the Caribbean through vivid imagery and the […]
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