By: Staff Writer
February 11, 2022
Caribbean artists are not appreciated despite their contribution to art and culture this Jamaican born artist living in New York says.
Madge Scott, artist and member of the Upstream Gallery in Hastings on Hudson, New York, USA is a member of RiverArts and her work has been collected worldwide and shown in Museums for group exhibitions, galleries and other venues since 2005.
Her next solo exhibition opens later this month at the Monument Gallery in Kingston NY.
Ms Scott, who was born in Jamaica, said: “I feel that black Caribbean artists are being unfairly omitted from the art community and we are not appreciated in the way we should be. There are so many gifted and talented artists in the Caribbean community, please give us a chance.
“I’m self-taught, I stumbled upon art while I was experiencing some problems in our family; it was the balm I needed and after our troubles went away I perused it relentlessly.
While Ms Scott is from Jamaica she has been living in NY for almost 40 years and has been involved art since 1997, which became her career in 2005.
She also said: “The most challenging thing about being a black female Caribbean artist is that we are mostly ignored in the black art community in the United States and other countries which are equally participating in the art world.
“Black men in the Arts are taken more seriously, earn more money and gain more respect than women. This is my own humble opinion.”