“Where I grew up, every night there was a blackout, so I would watch the stars and play in the dark.”

Potassi K19, the new gallery in the heart of Barcelona, is thrilled to be presenting the first solo show of Dominican Republic-born, Barcelona-based artist, Yermine Richardson.

Born in La Romana, a tourism and sugar industry city in the Dominican Republic, Yermine Richardson is a multidisciplinary artist whose visual works are vibrant celebrations of Caribbean culture and aesthetics. His very first contact with art was from the gift shops in the resorts where his mom worked, where he was impressed by the colours, themes and techniques he saw there. His works reflect the traditional semiotics of Caribbean heritage such as womanhood, fashion, spiritualism and cosmology but his influences go beyond his native island. 90’s TV was his information source about the world and pop culture, from Egyptians to Hubble telescope images, exican telenovelas and anime, fashion commercials and music television. All this formed his unique visual pop style and adds a contemporary emphasis to his technique, creating graphic visual pieces that reflect tradition and identity in a visually provocative way.

The POPCARIBE exhibition opens on Thursday November 24, 2022 at 7 pm.

Please contact Deborah Kee Higgins on dkh@azureves.com for more information or to request images or interviews with the artist.

Previous exhibitions:
- Tick of the Clock, It’s About Time, group show, October/November 2022
- Glen E Friedman, May/June 2022