ARTNET NEWS
By Terence Trouillot
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| Cy Gavin in his studio. Image courtesy the artist. |
NEW YORK---He’s a rising star now, but the young
Cy Gavin never thought he would become an artist. Now Gavin has two sold-out solo exhibitions at Sargent’s Daughters under his belt, one in 2015 and one 2016, and is featured currently at the Rubell Foundation in Miami. He draws inspiration from Bermuda, the homeland of his father, and a place the artist has often visited to conduct research on his family’s history. His art incorporates the country’s flora and fauna, as well as its complicated history as a pivotal site during the transatlantic slave trade, and as the first island in the Atlantic to attract wealthy American tourists seeking an alternative to summers in Europe during in the 1920s. [
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| Cy Gavin, Between Heaven and Earth (2015). Image courtesy the artist. |
