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Artist Kishan Munroe: Relational Undercurrents
Kishan Munroe is one of the artists at the Museum of Latin American Art (molaa) exhibition in Long Beach, Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago. Munroe has painted a picture of a little-known incident involving the navy of the Bahamas and the Cuban armed forces.
Kishan Monroe
“The Flamingo Incident, also known as the Cuban Incident, the Cay Santo Domingo Incident, or the Sinking of HMBS Flamingo, occurred on 10 May 1980, just under six weeks of the Force’s official establishment… Commander Amos Rolle was the Commanding Officer of HMBS Flamingo when they left Coral Harbour Base on Thursday 08 May 1980 on what should have been a routine ten-day patrol of Bahamian territorial waters. He and his 18 crew members had been tasked with stemming poaching in this particular quadrant. All remained quiet until about 1700. on Saturday 10 May, when they spotted two foreign fishing vessels, some 500 yards north of Cay Santo Domingo, engaged in fishing.”
To discover more about the HMBS Flamingo incident, visit HERE
PalacioMagazine.com spoke with Kishan Munroe (Bahamas, b. 1980) about his work on exhibit at molaa, The Sinking of HMBS Flamingo / El hundimiento de HMBS Flamingo, 2014 Oil and acrylic on canvas / Óleo y acrílico sobre lienzo, 60 x 96 x 2 ½ in. Collection of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force / Cortesía de la Fuerza de defensa de las Bahamas reales
The exhibition, at molaa until February 25, 2018, features over 80 artists with roots in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Curaçao, Aruba, St. Martin, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, the Bahamas, and Barbados. Relational Undercurrents is supported by grants from the Getty Foundation as part of their Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a self-described “…far reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles.” Pacific Standard Time is being held at more than 70 cultural institutions across Southern California.
Kishan Munroe http://www.kishan-munroe.com/
Kishan Munroe (born 1980, Nassau, Bahamas) is a socially conscious artist whose goal is to transcend the boundaries of language and culture in order to create artwork that can be understood as activism.
In 2003 Kishan obtained BFA degrees in Painting and 3D Visual Effects at Savannah College of Art and Design. He went on to pursue graduate work at his alma mater on a graduate fellowship and concluded his studies in Painting in 2005.
Kishan’s work has been exhibited in the Caribbean, North America, and Latin America. His work is included in many public and private collections and has also received numerous awards and accolades.
On the 21st of August 20, 2008, Munroe, embarked upon a multi-media expedition entitled ‘The Universal Human Experience’. With paintbrush and camera in hand, he has planned an ambitious trek around the world. Through his imagery, he tells the many and varied stories of human struggles and triumphs in the hope of finding a common ground. Kishan Munroe is based in Nassau, Bahamas but will be a global citizen for the next few years.
