July 5, 2008
Current Exhibition
Upcoming Exhibitions
Previous Exhibitions
Boston by Design
Faith In Art
2006 Student Art Exhibit
Bunker Hill Community College Collects
Boston Women’s Caucus for the Arts
Lou Jones
Monica Martinez
Student Art Exhibit
My Mother's Daughter
New Masters of Art
Peter Madden
A solo exhibition of paintings and mixed media works on paper.
 `Old Hag`: mixed media on paper, 8” x 5.75” by Kofi Kayiga |
 `Warrior Spirit`: acrylic on felt paper, 96” x 36”, 1994by Kofi Kayiga |
 `Upright Turtle`: mixed media on paper, 7.25” x 5.75”, 1995 by Kofi Kayiga |
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Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery is proud to present the works of internationally acclaimed artist Kofi Kayiga in a solo exhibition entitled SpiritHue.
The Jamaican born, Boston based KAYIGA graduated from the Jamaican School of Art, completed his Master of Fine Arts in painting at the Royal College of Art in London, England and did post graduate research in traditional African religions at Makerere University in Uganda.
KAYIGA has exhibited internationally and his works are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Jamaica, the Royal College of Art, the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, and the College of the Holy Cross. KAYIGA’S teaching, lecturing and publishing resume includes a full professorship at the Massachusetts College of Art, lectures at the University of Costa Rica, The Museum of Fine Arts, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
Critical reviews of KAYIGA’S work have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Toronto Globe and Mail, “The Song that Named the Land, the Visionary Presence of African American Art, Black Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African American Art”, by Yale Professor, Robert Farris Thompson, Painting in Boston: 1950 – 2000. DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, by Rachel Rosenfeild Lafo, Nick Capasso and Jennifer Uhrahane, The Garden Party, Celebrating the 40 th Anniversary of the Bank of Jamaica, and Fifty Years – Fifty Artists 1950 – 2000, The School of Visual Art, edited by Petrine Archer –Straw.
The vibrant paintings, pastel drawings and mixed media works on paper which, “probe the interior landscape of Kayiga’s feelings in order to find, explore and reveal a mythic world of primordial archetypes”, will be on view through November 19 th.
Meet KAYIGA during the Artist’s Reception of September 30 th, 6 – 8p.m. or at the informal gallery talk on October 13 th, 2:30 – 3:30p.m.