The multifaceted Kwesi Abbensetts recently released Poems. A film about a couple traveling through Jamaica, Poems is a far cry from your average artsy cinematic offering. Poems doesn’t break the rules, it simply ignores them. Poems possesses an enduring but delicate dichotomy that teeters on the edge while still remaining tethered to a safe, warm place that could only exist …
Kwesi Abbensetts presents Pepperpot.
We are huge fans of Kwesi Abbensetts here at Quiet Lunch, so you can only imagine our delight when we discovered that the artist recently debuted a charming photozine titled Pepperpot. Sharing its namesake with a popular and delicious Guyanese dish, Pepperpot is a gathering of striking images shot by Abbensetts. As a whole, the zine is a collective snapshot of Abbensetts’ …
Water Me.| Kwesi Abbensetts at Brilliant Champions Gallery.
wesi Abbensetts’s first solo exhibition opened at Brilliant Champions Gallery. Subtle detail lies in the layers of his photographic collages, while maintaining the graphic edge that distinguishes his work. His espousal of intuition as his leading force pays off in each of the portraits of Water Me. Black bodies, florals, and rich patterns form the images and reflect back Abbensetts’s Caribbean origins in what he …
Conception Art Fair 2017 New York. | Quiet Lunch presents Kwesi Abbensetts.
e are happy to announce our booth at Conception Art Fair! For our FIRST booth exhibition, we will be showcasing A Kind of Masking, a series from photographer Kwesi Abbensetts. We will also be displaying our latest print edition featuring painter Lance De Los Reyes, shot by Eva Mueller, on the cover. CONCEPTION ART FAIR is set to make its Frieze …
Metamorphosis: Come To Me. | Kwesi Abbensetts.
ultifaceted creative Kwesi Abbensetts is debuting a one night show at Boom!‘s Salon X. Titled, Metamorphosis: Come To Me, Abbensetts that exhibition is a show about exploration. “Of bodies chang’d to various forms, I sing: Ye Gods, from whom these miracles did spring, Inspire my numbers with coelestial heat; ‘Till I my long laborious work compleat: … “ – translated from Ovid’s, …
NEW VIDEO | Where Are We. | Kwesi Abbensetts |x| Trae Harris.
wesi Abbensetts just released a new short film titled, Where Are We. Starring performance artist Trae Harris, the film is an introspective journey through the outside world. You can view more of Abbensetts’ films on his Vimeo channel. Where Are We from Kwesi Abbensetts on Vimeo.
DREAD. | Kwesi Abbensetts.
wesi Abbensetts recently debuted a short film titled “DREAD.” Shot and directed by Abbensetts himself, the visuals stars the glowing Crystal tussling her lovely locs to an excerpt from Ben Okri’s “The Famished Road.” The film overall is quaint, brief and magical.
11. | Meridian Lights. |x| Kwesi Abbensetts.
is a captivating cinematic collaboration by music duo Meridian Lights and multi-creative Kwesi Abbensetts that mirrors the crescendous and pulsating rhythm of a hot New York summer. It is their second collaboration this year. Why the number eleven? The band issued this statement along with the visuals: “The 11 symbolizes the potential to push the limitations of the human experience …
An Interview with Numa Perrier. | Kwesi Abbensetts.
wesi Abbensetts had the pleasure of interviewing fellow artist Numa Perrier. Titled the long interview, the Haitian born, American raised Perrier discusses her artistry, meditation, motherhood and the phrase “black artist.” For those of you who may not be familiar with Perrier, her creative resume is a mile long. She is the founder of Black&Sexy TV. She is also gearing up to …
A Kind of Masking. | Kwesi Abbensetts.
n our eyes, Kwesi Abbensetts is a new age creative who can do no wrong. Abbensetts’ work is in a state of constant evolution—which is what we love most about it. His aesthetic changes with the days, giving way to an unpredictable conceptualism that garners unwavering intrigue. Abbensetts’ latest series, A Kind of Masking, admixes traditional portraiture with abstract patterns. The …
BOOK N°4. | Lance De Los Reyes.
QUIET LUNCH is proud to present BOOK N°4 featuring prolific painter Lance De Los Reyes! Artists who seem perpetually fixed in that creative moment with eyes wide, mind open and heart set on learning all that the universe has to offer—good or bad no different. A proverbial Phoenix, his life and art is the manifestation of rebirth.
On our cover, shot by German born photographer Eva Mueller, De los Reyes is surrounded by his most coveted totems, his necessary materials and tools of his craft and resources of inspiration that he utilizes on his creative journey to make paintings that carry with them the same radiance as the Phoenix itself.
Book N°4 is 174 pages of art, style, beauty tips, short poems and photography featuring talented artists like Julia Sinelnikova, Willy Verginer, OSHUN, Ryan Bock, Teresa Aversa, Kwesi Abbensetts and MUCH MORE!
Preview Below:
How Wondersome.
uyanese photographer, Kwesi Abbensetts certainly has our hearts this week. Wondersome is a “self-experiment” starring Abbensetts himself. Abbensetts isn’t the only in this photographic series, those shades he’s wearing deserve a shoot of their own.
It Started with a Red Girl.
e’ve officially fallen in love with Kwesi Abbensetts. After spotting one of Abbensetts’ pieces on the interwebs, we decided to delve deeper and what we found was pure gold. What intrigues us the most is Abbensetts’ soothing manipulation of light.