PORT ROYAL, South Carolina, July 23, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Emerging artist Verneda Lights believes “art is medicine, and medicine is art.” This is the driving philosophy behind his latest exhibition, Gullah Me, which opens August 6 at the BASEcamp Gallery.

The genre exhibit sits at the crossroads of Tech-Expressionist, Afro-surrealist and traditional fine art, with the individual works being the product of the artist’s own quest to find insight and healing while she was engaged in his elderly parents and his younger brother, who had suffered a stroke. Lights gives a vibrant and poignant expression to the reality of illness, grief and loss, and the struggle to come to terms with it. Infusing her work with multiple layers of dualism (art / medicine, tradition / technology, analog / digital), Lights herself is also a bridge between two worlds. Graduated from Bryn Mawr College, and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, she practiced medicine for 20 years before turning to art full time.

Gullah Me exists in this realm of juxtaposition and dualism, positioning traditional Gullah art, which uses the application of paint to a physical canvas, within a new paradigm of technology and digital instruments. The result? A post-Gullah, tech-impressionist visual and emotional experience that blends memory, family and healing and challenges traditional notions of art.

As an emerging artist, Verneda Lights further alters the landscape of post-Gullah art by including faces, which historically were not part of Gullah’s iconic artistic tradition. In his hands, the portrait finds its place at the intersection of tradition and technology and becomes a powerful tool for telling stories and better understanding the human psyche.

Visitors to the exhibition can experience this fusion of analog and digital, as the framed fine art prints come with scannable QR codes that allow visitors to go online to learn more about the art. artwork and buy it.

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The complete solo exhibition of 18 works takes place from August 6 to September 30 at the BASEcamp Gallery of the Beaufort Digital Corridor, 500 rue Carteret, Beaufort, South Carolina. Seven works by emerging artist Verneda Lights are currently on display in the space, providing a taste of the exhibition.

About the artist
Verneda Lights is Gullah, originally from South Carolina and CEO of E-graphX ​​Omnimedia. His work has received several awards and distinctions, notably as a finalist of the jury of the Boston CyberArts Festival in 2003. His works were presented at the Whitney Biennial in New York City, and from Charleston City Gallery, as well as many prestigious art galleries, museums and art magazines in the United States.

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