POPCARIBE

“Where I grew up, every night there was a blackout, so I would watch the stars and play in the dark.”

Born in La Romana, a tourism and sugar industry city in the Dominican Republic, Yermine Richardson is a multidisciplinary artist whose visual works are vibrant celebrations of Caribbean culture and aesthetics. His very first contact with
art was from the gift shops in the resorts where his mom worked, and he was impressed by the colours, themes and techniques he saw there. His works reflect the traditional semiotics of Caribbean heritage such as womanhood, fashion, spiritualism and cosmology but his in influences go beyond his native island. 90’s TV was his window out onto the wider world and pop culture, from Egyptians to Hubble telescope images, Mexican telenovelas, anime, fashion commercials and music television. All this formed his unique visual style and adds a contemporary emphasis to his technique, creating bold graphic visual pieces that reflect tradition and identity in a visually provocative way.