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More highlights from Volta NY: Adam Mysock, Natalie Reis, Akihiro Higuchi, Masatake Kouzaki, Ryan Browning, Michael Caines, and Chris Barnard. Plus one bonus pic of an adorably pooped furry art fair attendee. ^_^

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Kwesi Abbensetts Photos is a visual artist living amongst the towers and living cacophony of New York City. He is originally from the South Americas, hailing from the country coast of Guyana. His video work is a dissection of moments, action, thoughts self experiment and magic. It is informed by an instinctual impulse, that is randomly special and kinetic in its form. 

Abbensetts seeks to explore the idea of now, that "now" is always art and should not have to always follow a contemplative arrangement. The Caribbean has fostered an "everyday" creativity through the use of "basic tools" as part of living and managing everyday, it is intrinsically link to survival, Abbensetts's working is a tapping in of this energy, to produce art. Kwesi will be premiering two new videos at Grace Exhibition Space Brooklyn on the 8th of March.

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Olivia McGilchrist is a Jamaican visual artist whose alter-ego Whitey explores physical expressions of emotional states in the search for cultural identity.  She troubles her post-colonial white Creole female identity by remapping it within the tropical picturesque through photographs, performances and multi-layered videos. Her work has been shown in Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Grenada, Brazil, the U.S., the U.K., and France.  Most recently she won the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival and ARC's New Media Prize, and was chosen by the National Gallery of Jamaica as one of ten emerging artists on the island. Olivia will speak about her ongoing practice and its relationship to performance art and folklore. RSVP to attend ‪#‎VOLTANY2014‬ and ‪#‎ARCArtistsTalk‬ today!

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Bahamian artist John Cox will be showcasing work at this year's #VOLTANY2014 showcase and we are thrilled to be hosting the #ARCArtistsTalk, "Metanoia: Practices of Exhaustion" on March 7, 2014, where he will have the chance to speak about the important work that he is doing within the cultural landscape of the Bahamas as Artistic Director at Baha Mar and founder of Popupstudios Icva. Here are a few of John Cox's works in progress for Volta Art Fair. RSVP to the event here -http://on.fb.me/NYpMn2 - and see more on ARC here - http://bit.ly/1f9R4Am.