Marsha Pearce PhD

Book Reviews

• Review of Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance edited by Yanique Hume and Aaron Kamugisha. Caribbean Quarterly 63.2-3 (2017): 397-399.

Book Chapters

• “Ready for Takeoff? Lacerated Fantasies of Caribbean Paradise in the Décollage Art of Andrea Chung” in Travel and Imagination. Eds. Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 197-211.
• “Picturing Self” in See Me Here: A Survey of Contemporary Self-Portraits from the Caribbean. Eds. Melanie Archer and Mariel Brown. Laventille: Robert & Christopher Publishers, 2014. 5-11.
• “A Caribbean Creative District: Woodbrook, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago” in Creative Districts around the World. Eds. Lénia Marques and Greg Richards. Breda: CELTH, 2014. 233-239.
• “Tropical Impressions of a Traveller: Caribbean Place and the Retouching of Sensory Experience in the Paintings of Steve Bonner” in Travel, Tourism and Art. Eds. Tijana Rakić and Jo-Anne Lester. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. 145-160.

Edited Volumes

• “Firing the Canon” (co-edited with Ayanna Gillian Lloyd and Colin Robinson) special issue of Moko Caribbean Arts and Letters 7 (2015).

Journal Articles

• “Art as a Poetics of Recognition: Self and White Alterity in Olivia McGilChrist’s Contemporary Art.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 21.1 (2017): 70-88.
• “Artist Residencies in the Caribbean: Recuperating the Teleoaffective Structure of Visual Arts Practice in the Anglophone Islands.” Seachange 5 (2014): 22-36.
• “Looking Like People; Feeling Like People: The Black Body, Dress and Aesthetic Therapy in the Caribbean.” Culture Unbound 6 (2014): 857-72.
• “Clothes that Wear Us: Caribbean Identity and the Apparel Art of Robert Young.” Jonkonnu Arts Journal 1.1 (2013): 35-42.
• “Art is a Doing Word: Jamoo Music as World Changer.” Caribbean InTransit Arts Journal 2.3 (2012): 38-43.
• “Rooted in J’Ouvert, Conscious of the World: Music, Location and Caribbeanness in the Rapso Art of 3canal.” Caribbean InTransit Arts Journal 1.2 (2012): 26-36.
• “Using B.L.O.G.S: The Deployment of Blended Learning to Orient Graduate Study.” Caribbean Teaching Scholar 1.1 (2011): 65-73.
• “Sequins and Ginger: Playing Mas Behind Chinese Kitchen Doors the Caribbean,” The Asian Experience in the Caribbean. Eds. Sandra Pouchet Paquet and Lara Cahill-Booth. Spec. issue of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 7.1&2 (2009).
• “Transnational/Transcultural Identities: The Black Atlantic and Pythagoras’s Theorem.” Cultures and Letters of the Black Diaspora. Eds. Ivy G. Wilson and Ayo A. Coly. Spec. issue of Callaloo 30.2 (2007): 547-554.

Interviews

• “Watercolour Words? Crafting Pictures in Short Stories: An Interview with Rhoda Bharath and Sharon Millar.” Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 6.1 (2016): 119-132.
• “Ras Kassa The Guru: Counterpoints.” Celebrating Caribbean Voices: 25 Interviews. Ed. Don Walicek. Spec. issue of Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language and Culture (2010-11) 178-185.

Art Catalogues / Exhibition Texts

• “A Chorus of F-words in Rab Lands” in Annalee Davis – This Ground Beneath My Feet: A Chorus of Bush in Rab Lands. 2016.
• “Dialogic Identities: Self and Other.”  Text commissioned by Skol Art Centre, Canada for Olivia McGilchrist’s exhibition entitled Otherness. 2015
• “Ruins Teeming with Life” in Nicholas Emery – Decay Exhibition Catalogue. Port-of Spain, 2014.
• “Art from Memory” in Joshua Lue Chee Kong – Moulded Memories Exhibition Catalogue. Port-of Spain: Medulla Art Gallery, 2014. 11-14.
• “The Dynamic Duo of Light and Time” in Lisa O’Connor – Light and Time Exhibition Catalogue. Port-of Spain: Y Art Gallery, 2013. 2-5.
• “Against a White Chamber of Aesthetics: Spatial Critique and Worldliness in the Art of Dean Arlen” in Dean Arlen – Paint Installation Project Exhibition Catalogue. 2013.
• “Photographic Memory: Between Record and Art” in Record : Art : Memory – Photography in Trinidad and Tobago Exhibition Catalogue. Port-of Spain: Art Society of Trinidad and Tobago, 2012. 15-21.
• “Taking a Cool Trip” in Peter Sheppard – Road Trip Exhibition Catalogue. 2012.

Selected Magazine and Newspaper Articles for General Audiences

• “New Performance Art Festival Challenges the Cruising Body.” ARC Magazine. 16 May 2017.
• “Painterly Sounds, Poetic Sights (A Review of the book Morning, Paramin by Derek Walcott and Peter Doig).” Sunday Guardian Newspaper. 8 January 2017. pp.B3 and B4.
• “Art of the Times: A Look Back at T&T’s 2016 Art Scene.” Sunday Guardian Newspaper. 1 January 2017. pp.B4, B29 and B30.
• “Planes, Trains and Art.” Sunday Guardian Newspaper. 25 December 2016. p.B29.
• “Dreaming With Her Hands.” Sunday Guardian Newspaper. 18 December 2016. p.B38.
• “A Visa to Stay.” Sunday Guardian Newspaper. 11 December 2016. p.B3.
• “Crafting Vases, Building Relationships.” Sunday Guardian Newspaper. 4 December 2016. p.B37.
• “Revealing a T&T Matrix.” Sunday Guardian Newspaper. 27 November 2016. p.B39.
• “What It’s Like to Play Bat.” Sunday Guardian Newspaper. 20 November 2016. p.B1.
• “Hinkson’s Naked Eye.” Sunday Guardian Newspaper. 20 November 2016. p.B40.
• “Debunking Paradise, Again.” Sunday Guardian Newspaper. 26 June 2016. p.B38.
• “Art and the City.” Sunday Guardian Newspaper. 26 June 2016. pp.B3 and B4.
• “The Art Gallery: Not Destined to be a Thing of the Past – An Interview with Alys Williams.” ARC Magazine. 31 May 2016.
• “Art Breeds Possibility: Wendy Nanan’s New Works.” ARC Magazine. 22 April 2016.
• “Real Fantasy: Versia Harris Exhibits Muddy Areas.” ARC Magazine. 10 December 2015.
• “Black Aesthetics and Being in the World: An Interview with Nana Adusei-Poku.” ARC Magazine. 20 July 2015.
• “Arbeiten ohne Begeisterung /Working without Enthusiasm.” Kulturaustausch/Cultural Exchange: Journal for International Perspectives 2015: 40.
• “Die Welt als Archipel /The World as Archipelago.” Kulturaustausch/Cultural Exchange: Journal for International Perspectives 2014: 18-19.
• “Paul Kain Paints Street Realities.” Sunday Guardian Newspaper. 10 May 2015. p. B46.
• “Confronting the Chimera: Shirley Rufin’s Photographic Female Nudes.” ARC Magazine. 7 May 2015.
• “Re-tailed Narratives and Everyday Objects Re-membered: Blue Curry’s ‘Souvenir.’” ARC Magazine. 30 Jan. 2015.
• “The Magic of Al Braithwaite’s Objects.” ARC Magazine. 30 Jan. 2015.
• “Versia Harris: Once Upon a Dream.” Caribbean Beat 131, 2015: 76-82.
• “Dirty Identities: UK Photographer Ajamu Shows and Tells.” Sunday Guardian Newspaper. 20 Jul. 2014. pp. B3 and B4.
• “Balancing Vistas: A Review of Grrrringo.” ARC Magazine. 11 Jul. 2014.
• “Art that Wants Something from Us: Raquel van Haver’s Vital Signs.” ARC Magazine. 19 Mar. 2014.
• “Combing Self and the Archives: An Interview with Nyugen Smith.” ARC Magazine. 28 Feb. 2014.
• “Is Painting Dead? Ruminations on Rex Dixon’s Latest Works.” Sunday Guardian Newspaper. 8 Dec. 2013. p. B30.
• “Big Steups: Social Critique, Performance and Memory in the Art of Richard Mark Rawlins.” ARC Magazine. 22 Jul. 2013.
• “Little Girl Blue and Other Tales from the Neighbourhood.” Draconian Switch eMagazine Issue 21. 26 Jun. 2013.
• “Infinite Self in Rodell Warner’s Animated GIF Installation.” ARC Magazine. 17 May 2013.
• “Mental Health, Modernity and the Art of Steve Ouditt.” ARC Magazine. 18 Mar. 2013.
• “A Caribbean Throbbing in the Shadows: The Photography of Nadia Huggins.” ArtCronica Revista de Artes Visuales No. 3. Feb. 2013. pp. 57-61.
• “Making Space for ‘Unpopular’ Art: From Aquarela to Medulla Art Gallery.” 6 Carlos Magazine. Issue 2, Nov. 2012. pp. 20-22.
• “When a Poem Makes the Surface of a Painting Permeable.” ARC Magazine. 4 Oct. 2012.
• “Reciprocal Seductions in the Art of Jasmine Thomas-Girvan and Olive Senior.” ARC Magazine. 4 Sept. 2012.
• “A Stitch in Crime: Adele Todd’s Embroidered Scenes of Violence.” ARC Magazine. 27 Aug. 2012.
• “From Imago to Image: Visual Articulations of Self in ‘Son of a Champion.’” ARC Magazine. 13 Jul. 2012.
• “Our World is Not Flat (A Review of Pictures from Paradise).” Draconian Switch eMagazine Issue 17. 10 Jul. 2012.
• “X-Ray Vision and Identity in the Art of Luis Vasquez La Roche.” ARC Magazine. 18 Jun. 2012.