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Artist LeRoy Clarke has died, reportedly at 6 am on Tuesday.
Clarke was born in Belmont in November 1938 and most recently lived in Cascade. He was 83 at the time of his death.
Clarke was best known for his visual art, which spanned from TT to the New York City art scene, and was acknowledged as one of TT’s greatest creative talents. His work was first shown in 1972 in New York’ Studio Museum in Harlem. That series of paintings was called Fragments Of A Spiritual. Other exhibitions and collections included Douens (1973-1976), Honouring LeRoy Clarke on His 80th Birthday and in Memory of his Mother Ellen Clarke (2018), and The Eye Hayti… Cries…Everywhere in April 2021.
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LeRoy Clarke exhibition dedicated to Haitian people
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Neil Parsanlal, chairman, Nalis board, left; Adaeze Clarke, daughter of master artist LeRoy Clarke; and Paula Greene, executive director (Ag), Nalis. -
AN exhibition of the works of master artist LeRoy Clarke titled The Eye Hayti… Cries… Everywhere, is ongoing at the Heritage Library, Port of Spain.
A media release from Nalis quotes Clarke as saying the collection “is a dedication to the Haitian people…whose courage is unassailable in the struggle to preserve humanity in fulfilling their destiny.”
At the opening of the exhibition last month, Neil Parsanlal, chairman of the board of Nalis, said the drawings should jolt people out of the pandemic of apathy.for which no vaccine other than determined action can cure.