“Peace and Love” Exhibition

Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning

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Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL) presents PEACE AND LOVE exhibition as part of its Black Month History Celebration.

The PEACE AND LOVE exhibition includes paintings, mixed media works and sculptures by Joseph S. Bell-Bey, Karl A. McIntosh, Otto Neals, Donovan Nelson, and Ann Tanksley.

This exhibition curator Otto Neals states that “Each of the artists, in his or her way, has created works reflecting the African American experience (whether intentional or not), that has touched the viewers. And as we travel through the world, badly in need of solutions to its many problems, we hope with our art to find a path to Peace and Love.”

ARTISTS BIOS
Joseph S. Bell-Bey was born in Chester, Maryland. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Brooklyn, N.Y. He is a Vietnam era veteran, worked for The U.S. Postal Service for 36 years where he served as president of Brooklyn Local of the American Postal Workers Union.

After a near death experience in 2005, Joseph found his passion in visual art. with the guidance of fellow artists Otto Neals and Karl McIntosh, he has created an impressive body of fine works of art. Joseph has given art exhibitions at the Fillmore Gallery in Brooklyn, the Dedicator’s Luncheon in Honor of the Black Artist, Dorsey’s Art Gallery’s Holiday Show, York College, The Great Neck Library, The Grace Baptist Church and The Abyssinian Development Corporation. A mere 20 months after he first began to paint, Joseph had already been in 21 art exhibitions. His work is in many prominent collections across the country including the permanent collection of the Abyssinian Development Corporation.

Karl A. McIntosh is a self-taught artist who works is pastel, watercolor, acrylic, stone, wood and metal and is a wizard at transforming found objects into works of art. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he moved to the United States at an early age and later took up art. Among his mentors are artist Otto Neals with whom he worked at the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Working Workshop and artist Marian Griffin. McIntosh is also a poet, drummer and dancer who draw his creative inspiration and expression from his study of African art and culture. McIntosh’s bold, bright colors dance off the page and tantalize the senses. His work is profound in its statement and deliciously whimsical. His work is an honest portrayal of everyday life and the people who live it but on occasion, takes on public figures and world events most often employing satire as thick as the layers of paint or paper he uses to depict them.

Otto Neals, painter, sculptor and printmaker was born in Lake City, South Carolina. His family moved from the south to Brooklyn, N.Y. where he has resided ever since.
He is basically self-taught, however, he did study briefly at the Brooklyn Museum with Isaac Soyer and at the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop with Mohammed Khalil, Roberto DeLamonica and Krishna Reddy. He is proficient in many mediums including oils, watercolors, pastels and wood and stone carving. In 1958 he participated in the newly founded Fulton Art Fair where he met artists such as Tom Feelings, Al Hollingsworth, Vivian Schuyler Key, Vincent Smith and Ernie Crichlow and Jacob Lawrence who were the co-Directors of the fair. To date, he is the only artist that has taken part in the exhibitions each year since its inception. He was also a founding member of the Harlem based group called the Weusi Artists which maintained a gallery called, Nyumba Ya Sanaa.

Donovan Nelson was born in Manchester, Jamaica, WI. He relocated to the U.S. in 1982 where he discovered that he had an ability to draw. Nelson began studying at the University of the Art in Philadelphia, PA, where he majored in illustration. In addition, he studied portraiture and figure painting at the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1995 he received a B.F.A. in Illustration and then continued his studies at the New York Academy of Art in New York. He became employed at Forum Gallery. After receiving an M.F.A. from the New York Academy, he became an employee of Modworks Inc. Donovan began to teach art in the New York Public School system. He started studying with Shanks and Sherr at the Art Students League in New York City. He shows his work at various galleries in New York. Donovan currently teaches at New York City College of Technology.

Ann Tanksley is serious about her work and feels a great deal of responsibility as an artist. As a part of her life’s mission she embarked on the epic undertaking of following the African slave trade route in her own travels. Her travel took her to places such as the African continent, the Caribbean, Brazil, Qatar and throughout the United States. Her work reflects her travel and the emotional impact she absorbs. Working through what she experiences, her reflections, her awareness and contemplation, she gives us a body of work that transcends the ordinary.
A Pittsburgh native and New York resident, Ann has enjoyed a long and illustrious professional career highlighted by numerous honors and artistic achievements. A graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, PA, she also studied at the Parsons School of Design, the Printmaking Workshop and the New School for Social Research, all located in New York. Tanksley has studied with many master artists including Norman Lewis, Balcom Green, Sam Rosenberg, Robert Blackburn and Kathy Carracio.

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from February 15, 2018 to April 30, 2018

Opening Reception on 2018-03-24 from 14:00 to 18:00

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