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Students of the New Jersey City University Art Association exhibited their works at
This exhibition will feature 10-12 artists from various parts of the Caribbean. The work will be a comparison between the fantasy of colonization and the reality of actual life. It will demonstrate the psychological and emotional voyage artists have made. The Caribbean is often seen as a tourist wonderland or the entry point of drugs into the US. When Americans and Europeans visit the area they spend money on what is considered airport art which depicts a fantasized version of native peoples sunning in coconut tree laden settings, with aquamarine beaches, or carrying fruit on their heads as they enjoy their native lives of care-free living under the sun. This preposterous lie still permeates the promotional songs and photo catalogs made for "outsiders". Insiders know the hard life of the Caribbean, that becomes more poverty ridden and diseased every day as Europeans buy up the most valuable Caribbean property, increase island taxes, driving the wedge between the "haves and the have nots" back to the days of colonization. In the work of these artists, the viewer gets to see the facts of day to day life in the 21st Century.

The Artists of "No Country Is An Island"

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