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Original Art work  by Bernard Hoyes

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bh-santa-maria-boat-people-ev.jpg (60029 bytes) Haitian Boat People
Casualties of Contemporary Life

5' x 10'
Oil on canvas
1992

In 1992, he found a dramatically non-traditional exhibition space in downtown Kingston for a mural project he executed with fellow artist Andy Jefferson. This project, "Casualties of Contemporary Life," called attention to the physical, social, and spiritual suffering of downtown residents. Painting in a burnt-out building (itself a casualty of the 1977 insurrection there), the artists invited city residents to experience the aesthetic pleasure and emotional and intellectual satisfaction of first-class art in such an unlikely setting.

 

 


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