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Journal · Gallery openings · Kingston

Opening night at
BAD Art Gallery.

Art on the walls, vinyl on the turntable and a first look inside the gallery’s new space on Hope Road.

Venue
BAD Art Gallery & Studio
92 Hope Road, behind Bookophilia
Kingston 6, Jamaica
Soft launch

5 pm – 10 pm
Music
Stamma from Club RPM
Joshua Solas, artist and founder of BAD Art Gallery, looking at the works on display
Joshua Solas, Jamaican visual artist and founder of BAD Art Gallery, on opening night.

A first look inside

On 29 May, BAD Art Gallery & Studio welcomed artists, collectors and friends of Kingston’s art community to its new space behind Bookophilia. Contemporary works filled the walls, with smaller pieces propped on tables. Stamma from Club RPM provided the music.

Art and records had shared a room before in the gallery’s programming. Club RPM was part of the December 2024 programme for Until Such Time, Jamaican artist Joshua Solas’s solo exhibition at 10A Kingston. At the Hope Road opening, the turntable was one of the details that caught our eye.

Colourful artworks hang above a wooden table lined with framed and unframed pieces
A closer look at the works on display.
An orange vinyl record on a turntable
On the turntable: Lila Iké. The evening’s music was by Stamma from Club RPM.
Framed artworks lean against each other below a carved wooden mask
Framed pieces gathered beneath a wooden mask.
A portrait in vivid blue hangs next to a black T-shirt
A blue portrait beside a rack of clothing.