Ship Comes In
Working in a quasi-pointillist technique which the artist refers to as “spots of light”, Solomon uses a historic photograph from the Cayman Islands National Archives as a basis for this work. Its title reflects the sense of longing that we associate with homecoming — the ship returning from many months at sea, as was the custom of Caymanian turtle fishing vessels. He focuses on the serenity of this luminous scene, exploring the kaleidoscopic shifting colours as they reflect off the ocean’s surface.
About the Artist
Gordon Solomon
b. 1977
Gordon Solomon is a painter and musician born in George Town, Grand Cayman, who studied Fine Art at the University of Superior Art, Cuba. He is a member of the Native Sons artists collective and his work is primarily concerned with Caymanian heritage, which he captures in a variety of visual styles, adopting an aesthetic that draws equally from Cubism, Pointillism, and Realism. Solomon has exhibited extensively both in the Cayman Islands and overseas and has received several public mural commissions. Solomon’s work can be found in the public collections of the Cayman Islands National Archive, the Cayman Islands National Museum, and the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands. Exhibitions at NGCI include: 21st Century Cayman (2010), Founded Upon the Seas (2012), Metamorphoses (2014), All Access (2015), tIDal Shift: Explorations of Identity in Contemporary Caymanian Art (2015), Native Sons – Twenty Years On (2016), Saltwater in their Veins (2017), Mediating Self (2017), a solo show, Gordon Solomon – Life on the Colony (2018), Cross Currents – 1st Cayman Islands Biennial (2019), Tropical Visions (2019), and Island of Women: Life at Home During our Maritime Years (2020).
