Category archives: Mixed Media

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  • My website: www.hollysheartbyhand.com My Facebook page: www.facebook.com/hollysheartbyhand Websites I've built: www.townquareinc.com, http://www.ststanssports.org/ Media coverage: http://greenpointers.com/tag/holly-hearts-by-hand/, http://www.greenpointnews.com/news/5574/greenpoint-mother-rediscovers-her-inner-artist  

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  • Biography

  • 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[...]

  • Artist Statement

  • 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. --- 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[...]

  • Portfolio Samples

  • 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)    

  • Calendar of Events

  •   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 [...]