Category archives: Artist Pages
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Berette Macaulay is an award-winning photo-artist born in Sierra Leone of West African/ Dominican/German-Czech descent. She was raised in Jamaica and the UK, and is now based in the US. She also has a background in the performing arts as an actor, dancer, and theater technician. She works primarily in photo-based mixed media and installation using digital, alternative, and analog work processes. Berette also works collaboratively on interdisciplinary projects with performers, choreographers, filmmakers, and writers; and recently began work as a curator.
Her works have been published and exhibited internationally in solo and group shows in the Caribbean, Europe, Hong Kong, and the United States. She has shown works in several galleries, alternative, and outdoor spaces in New York City, such as Artists Space, Art Gotham, Headquarters Gallery, 25CPW Gallery, Gowanus Loft with the Vanderbilt Republic, Solar1 Park, and NH3 Gallery/Splashlight Studios. She has also shown at Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut, with Art For Progress/Fountain Art Fair for Art Basel Week in Miami, with The BIG PICTURE project in Denver, Colorado, USA; NORD Galerie Haus in Nürnberg, GERMANY; and at HiQo Gallery, Mutual Gallery, and the National Gallery of Jamaica in Kingston, JAMAICA.
She also made her curatorial debut at NYFA supported Taller Boricua Gallery for her originally proposed photo-based group show on immigration and identity. The show titled 'illusive self' featured 46 works a[...]
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Berette is inspired by expressive artists who draw from life as well as imaginative spaces, and she seeks always to do the same by integrating personal experiences with performance or visual art mediums when working on a project. She is interested in exposing or creating the emotional life of isolation and deep intrapersonal processes in her photographic work.
Berette also creates multidisciplinary works, producing photo-paintings by creating abstract imagery as a base for other materials like sand, plastic, gesso, and acrylic gels to create texture and dimension in final pieces.
Creative video projects are a secondary interest of this artist, using her performance background and life long interest in psychology to develop loosely scripted abstract film narratives/studies.
It is her desire to produce aesthetic works that are deliberately visceral or cathartic in effect, daring the viewer to experience oft repressed aspects of themselves.
GUIDING PHILOSOPHY
MIND the GAP
-the space between who you dream yourself to be and who you actually are.
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In the search of constant creative authenticity. Rules for the journey:
"Keep Dreaming.
And believe in your dreams.
Focus your vision and carefully plot the path toward it.
Seek permission from no one; work only for your own approval (which keeps you busy enough!).
Make the sacrifices you have to, with minimal complaints; endure the inevitable suffering along the way.
Stand your ground in the absence of s[...]
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SPLIT series (Clash of the Artists Creative Winner 2008)
MOON series
SMOKE series
CrowDeD series
MOMENTUM series
RiZing Passage Series
BRANDED ...therefore I AM series (Shown at Miami Basel 2011)
Neue Rootz series (Camera Club of New York National Jury Award 2012)
ReKON/ Cocooning Catharsis (Artist of the Year Finalist 2012)
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Jul 25, 2008
All We Have Left...
Aug 14, 2008
Interview with YARDEdge
Oct 16, 2008
2008 Fashion District Arts Festival
Oct 25, 2008
THE SQUARE FOOT SHOW
Dec 3, 2008
International Dance Series - Main Stage
Dec 13, 2008
Artists Space - Night of 1000 Drawings
Jun 4, 2009
Antagonist Art Night
Jun 12, 2009
Avant Garde Festival
Nov 22, 2009
Wintersalon 2009 - GERMANY
Apr 14, 2010
Art Auction for Haiti - JAMAICA
Jun 18, 2010
KOTE Art Festival
Jul 25, 2010
JCDC/NGJ National Visual Arts Competition & Exhibit
Sep 2, 2010
1st Thursday's Dumbo Gallery Walk
Sep 18, 2010
1st Annual Perceptions Contemporary Dance Festival
Oct 15, 2010
Critical Mass
Nov 20, 2010
Magmart | International Videoart Festival
Dec 12, 2010
2010 National Biennial
Mar 4, 2011
BIG PICTURE/Denver Month of Photography
Jul 17, 2011
JCDC/National Gallery of Jamaica
Nov 12, 2011
Art from the Heart/Vanderbilt Republic
Dec 1, 2011
AFP/Fountain Art Fair/Miami Basel Week
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