Last Updated on January 15, 2024, 1:33 AM AST by Anthony Morris
Premier of Nevis Mark Brantley took to social media and congratulated Kacey Jeffers of Nevis origin, whose photographs will be exhibited in Miami at the Frost Art Museum starting on January 24th, 2024.
Premier Brantley expressed his gratitude to how Kacey Jeffers has represented Nevis Island; he noted, “I can’t begin to say how proud I am of this young man from St James whom I have seen grow and come into his own in a highly competitive global business. I wish his debut exhibition resounding success.”
Premier Brantley shared a story which was once posted on the news paper about Kacey Jeffers.
The Nevisian artist Kacey Jeffers combines an affinity for polished fashion photography with a humanistic interest in street journalism and celebrates this notion.
Kacey Jeffers’s upcoming exhibition will start on Wednesday, January 24th, 2024, from 4 to 6 p.m. On view through May 4th, 2024, Multitudes is the self-taught New York-based artist’s solo museum debut.
The exhibition includes twenty-five photographs from various projects, all created on Nevis, that consider the effect of colonialism on Nevisian cultural aspects such as:
- school uniforms
- family life
- tourism
- cultural celebrations
- The act of photography itself-prompting contemplation of the humanity that populates an island often thought of only as a tourist destination.
The organiser has encouraged people to join for the opening reception and insightful conversation between the artist Kacey Jeffers (@kaceyphoto) and Yady Rivero, the Frost Art Museum’s assistant curator, as they unpack the themes explored in the exhibition.
This exhibition and discussion are part of the annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Exhibition Series at the Frost Art Museum.
The Funding for this exhibition was provided by :
- the Dorothea and Steven Green Endowment,
- FIU’s African and African Diaspora Studies program at the Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs,
- FIU’s College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts (CARTA).
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