The Expanded Caribbean

An exhibition of over fifty photographs and four related sculptural and video installations featuring work by 16 artists with projects based in several different nations and communities neighboring the Caribbean Sea. The exhibition brings together works that document, interrogate, challenge, and otherwise engage the meaning of place in an area with a rich history as a target of exploration and imperial conquest, voluntary and forced migration, trade, travel, and tourism. Responding variously to cultural, historical, mythological, and personal aspects the greater Caribbean, artists initiate dialogues about how events of the past inform contemporary experience in a continually shifting and evolving environment. Artists include Byron Wolfe; William Earle Williams; Ron Tarver; Kara Springer; Ivette Spradlin; Sheena Rose; Erika P. Rodríguez; Tony Rocco; Karyn Olivier; Conrad Louis-Charles; Matt Levitch; O’Neil Lawrence; Adrián Fernández; John E. Dowell, Jr.; Vincent Dixon; and Susan S. Bank. Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.