PRIMARY PROPERTY 2012: Richard Mark Rawlins

Artist Richard Mark Rawlins presents his new work PRIMARY PROPERTY 2012 at the Night Gallery of Bohemia. This show explores his continuing fascination with Woodbrook's seemingly invisible red light side. The show's media consist of 25 new paintings, buttons, a series of digital prints on acid free paper, a multimedia collaboration with Gif Jockey Wanderoller and a design object collaboration with Melissa Darbeau. RICHARD RAWLINS is a graphic designer and contemporary artist living and working in Trinidad and Tobago. Rawlins is the publisher of the online magazine Draconian Switch (www.artzpub.com), a co-founder of Trinidad and Tobago’s Erotic Art Week exhibition, and collaborator in the Alice Yard contemporary art-space initiative. Rawlins has designed art catalogues for Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art (Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, USA); Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions (The World Bank); Kibii Wi Koni for Surinamese artist Marcel Pinas; Town to Town for Barbadian artist Sheena Rose and most recently, the art book Pictures From Paradise: A Survey of Contemporary Caribbean Photography from Robert & Christopher Publishers. Rawlins has exhibited his work at Alice Yard, the National Museum and Soft Box Studios in Trinidad, the Museum of Art and Design in New York, USA, and at the UWI Mona Campus. In October 2012, Rawlins will be a resident artist at Vermont Studio Center in the USA.