THE SKY GALLERY

The Sky Gallery (TSG) is the only dedicated physical and online art gallery with a multifunctional event space in Kingston and St Andrew, Jamaica. It offers end-to-end support for exhibitions, events, and other creative collaborations. Established in 2021, TSG presents rotating monthly exhibitions by artists from across the region, providing exposure to a wider prospective audience and enabling their growth and development within their chosen profession. In addition to monthly exhibitions, the Gallery hosts specially curated events and offers venues for rental to individuals and organizations seeking a versatile and centrally located space.

TSG Events:

AWP: Art Wine Poetry (Every 2nd Thursday)

FUTS: Film Under The Sky (Every Third Friday)

IG: @theskygalleryja

Website: theskygalleryja.com

Nature, ever graceful yet pragmatic, determines that the seed must die in order to germinate. So too was Cecil’s transitioning graceful and impactful - a simultaneous passing and ancestral ‘spirit resurrection’. Through his accomplishments, he has left a colossal void, but he has passed on the proverbial baton of his unique artistic force.

Cooper’s contributions continue, as manifested in this auspicious occasion at Olympia Gallery, June through July 2022. He continues, from the beyond, his duty as a culture guru with an expansive definition of what constitutes Jamaican art patronage: taking on anArtists’ role as ‘patron’ through ‘philanthropy’.

He not only accumulated wealth but continues to share its bounty. In his passing, many are simultaneously healed. He has left behind numerous paintings and drawings, which speak to an immense and inexhaustibly fascinating legacy, forever worthy of examination. His lingering presence affords opportunities to young artists without the means to receive a proper education through his financial generosity. Therefore, he has a perpetual, exuberant presence and a spirit that possesses and lives within us all. Through him, many lives have changed and will change for the better - forever.

Cooper did his “Last Dance” (acrylic on canvas, 2003) while we were not watching. He spoke prophetically and quietly and created one of his final masterpieces, a major large-scale work as a final and profound rite of passage... a silky white dove, resting on the shoulder of the protagonist, a mark of selection - noting that the subject would shortly be at final rest, and the bird, its mission complete,

(Untitled) Embrace

Cecil Cooper

Acrylic Painting

33” x 25”, 2011

The University Of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. USA website: https://bryanmcfarlane.net