By: Staff Writer
December 14, 2021
On the year anniversary of the TERN Gallery, its founding director said that they have 3D virtual showrooms lined up for artists around the region to have their showings and all they have to do is just contact the gallery to find out more.
Lauren Perez, founding director of the TERN Gallery, New Providence, Bahamas, told Caribbean Magazine Plus on their year anniversary: “We liked the idea of having a secondary space and obviously doing that in an affordable virtual platform, obviously makes it more economically viable for a gallery in year one.”
You can go to the TERN’s website and click on their “Viewing Room” to see how the virtual gallery is being conceptualised. While a work in progress, Ms Perez hopes to continue on with the gallery in the era of virtual reality. She added: “So we rendered a gallery space in 3D, and hung a show of work.
“So we intend to do about four shows a year, online and it’s just another way to reach the global art market. Because even though the work isn’t physically being shown here, you can eat it’s very accessible online. So we’re going to do that through our website.”
The virtual viewing room is ideal for Caribbean and Central American artists to participate even though they are in separate countries. These virtual viewing rooms will be “set up every few months” and allow as many artists to participate in this era of greater connectivity. “We’ll have different viewing rooms set up every couple of months with different feature artists or group shows.
Al artists have to do is just contact the TERN is they want to be a part of an upcoming virtual showing. “We’d love to curate some of the younger artists as well on their virtual shows. It doesn’t even have to be digital art because we can get the work photographed and rendered into the space so it’s really accessible for younger artists as well,” she added.
The TERN Gallery in December 2020 and due to the COVID-19 pandemic bearing down on the world, its initial statement promoted the urgency in developing these digital mediums for artists to be able to showcase their work.
Surely the TERN is taking a turn for the better for artists in the region and it could not have come at a better time.
