BFA
Oil Paint
60.96 x 76.2 cm
2020
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About this artwork
In “Gangsta of Love”; Golding portrays a nude woman laying on her bed, placed between a gun that sits in the foreground on a table, and her lover’s photo hanging on the wall directly above her bed frame.
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Feb 12, 2024
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About the artist
Jay Golding’s figurative paintings and drawings evoke mythology, migration, and interconnectedness, creating literal and symbolic layers employed by vibrant palettes in acrylics and oils, sometimes incorporating collaged or impastoed elements. Golding’s emphasis on tribal cultures within his work, often infuses Caribbean and African cultural motifs allowing him to draw parallels between various communities–expressed by his masked figures and other fictional characters such as the purple-skinned beings from the village “Maji ya bluu”, which is Swahili for blue water. Golding frequently signs his work under the pseudonym Kwame, a name he donned after visiting Ghana in 2019 with his family. He cites his trip to the West African nation as well as Mexico as being life changing and having profound effects on his work.
Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1989 in Kingston, Saint Andrew, Jamaica. Currently residing in South Orange, NJ, USA.
Associates Degree in Arts
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https://www.insightsofayoungecologicalartist.com/features/in-conversation-%3A-jay-golding
https://www.wbgo.org/show/wbgo-journal/2024-02-10/south-orange-painter-jay-golding-explores-his-indigenous-roots
WBGO Journal: South Orange painter Jay Golding explores his Indigenous Roots
2018 Printer in Residence, Newark Printshop
Summer Residency Program, Solo(s) Project House, Newark, NJ
Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation Spring 2023 Residency
ResiliArts Residency, Luanda, Angola
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