Tomorrow (February 24 @ 7 pm) is the opening of the Jamaica Biennial 2017 at National Gallery West in Montego Bay, where David Gumbs’ Xing Wang project is featured. Here is a preview.
David Gumbs (1977, St Martin) studied at the Visual Arts School in Fort-de-France, Martinique, in 2001 and majored in interactive multimedia conception at Les Ateliers, L’ENSCI in Paris in 2002. His work has been shown nationally and internationally, including recently: Digital (2016), National Gallery of Jamaica; Video Islands (2015), Anthology Film Archives, New York; Transforming Spaces (2014), National Art Gallery of the Bahamas; Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (2014); and the Martinique Biennial (2013), Fort-de-France. Since 2009, Gumbs teaches multimedia, transmedia and motion design at the Visual Arts School in Fort-de-France, Martinique. He “explores the unseen, the cycle of life, the nature within, and digital rhizome macroscopic universes, across a dynamic multimedia oeuvre, including painting, photography and experimental video.” Gumbs in 2016 participated in a Davidoff Initiative residency in Beijing, China, and his contribution to the Jamaica Biennial 2017 consists of an interactive video project titled Xing Wang (Blossoms), which he developed during that residence.
Website: http://www.davidgumbs.com/
