While the cultural zeitgeist associated with the National Stadium-venued GraceKennedy/ISSA Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships dominated the bustling Mountain View Avenue thoroughfare, last Saturday night — Number 190 generated a buzz all of its own as creatives, visual artists, and dilletantes out to explore diverse expressions of contemporary drawing filed into the opening reception of INSIDES. The month-long exhibition mounted by the art initiative and gallery New Local Space (NLS) features work from Camille Chedda, Phillip Thomas, Prudence Lovell, and Oneika Russell. Saturday Social reporter Curt Cawley and NLS Executive Director Deborah Anzinger take a tour…

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Creative Sounds Managing Director and INSIDES co-sponsor Michael Carroll took a closer look at Phillip Thomas’s Untitled #2 acrylic on ceramic pieces.

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Prudence Lovell presented her carbon on milar, mounted-behind-glass installation Untitled [Connected II] — with the artist’s son, who studies abroad, as subject.

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Medical doctor and Violence Prevention Alliance chair Dr Elizabeth Ward delighted in Oneika Russell’s limited-edition book A Natural History: An Album.

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Visual artist Oneika Russell and her digital video entry A Natural History 5 Sequence 2.

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Award-winning visual artist Camille Chedda with her ink, plastic bag, and plastic crate installation Sketch for Exchange Value.

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Curatorial consultant Nicole Smythe-Johnson contemplates Phillip Thomas’s mixed media on canvas self-portrait Untitled #1.

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The trio of (from left) artist Alicia Brown, her nurse sis Collen Brown (right), and Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts student Howard Myrie made INSIDES their weekend do-go-see.