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Black Pony Gallery is delighted to take part in the third edition of FUZE Caribbean Art Fair, presenting new works by Dede Brown and Jason Bennett from The Bahamas, alongside Nasaria Suckoo Chollette from the Cayman Islands.

This year, FUZE unites over 50 booths, 18 countries, and 120+ artists, in the region’s most dynamic showcase of contemporary Caribbean art. Under the theme All a We…, the fair celebrates collective identity, shared histories, and the power of community — values at the heart of Black Pony Gallery’s mission.

📍Booth A21 | FUZE Caribbean Art Fair, The Bahamas

🗓️ October 22-26, 2025

Tickets available here

Please join us for a special evening celebrating Charles Zuill and the launch of his first art book, Charles Zuill: Portals to Another Dimension, published by Black Pony Publishing. This is a unique opportunity to hear from the artist himself, learn about his creative journey, and explore the ideas behind his groundbreaking works.
The 120-page hardcover book, featuring 147 images and essays by scholars and artists, provides a deep dive into Zuill’s evolution from realism to abstraction, his work as an educator and critic, and his impact on Bermuda’s arts community.
Event Details:

• Date: Friday, October 3, 2025
• Time: 5:30–7:00 pm
• Location: Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art
• Registration: Get your ticket

Join us for this immersive evening of discussion, reflection, and exploration of one of Bermuda’s most influential artists. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.
Buy your copy today, available on Black Pony Gallery website.

Laura Watts, PhD in Art History, Professor Emeritus at Daemen University, notes :

“Charles Zuill: Portals to Another Dimension, released in concert with an exhibition of the same name, provides a solid framework for the examination of one of Bermuda’s most esteemed artists. Comprised of several essays by scholars and fellow artists, the book opens with a statement by Zuill who introduces his artistic practice from his early years until a breakthrough moment in 1968, one that directed his search for fundamental, resonant form. Significantly, the essays place his work in the context of a broader art historical narrative, illustrating that Zuill’s painting embodies both his island experience while simultaneously operating within an international dialogue about materiality and abstraction.
The high-resolution photographs illustrate Zuill’s prolific output, allowing the reader to visually frame the long arc of his career into his phases of exploration and solutions. As a complete retrospective, readers learn of these different periods, from his tonal studies of the early 1970s to his multi-media compositions from the last decade, created with sand, copper paint, or a magnetic iron ore called magnetite. Importantly, the essays and the images convey a consistent voice, one rife with a rich subtext. Most certainly, this study on Zuill sets the tone for investigations of Bermudian abstraction specifically and Bermudian art history generally. Hopefully, it will be the first of many to come from Black Pony Publishing.”

Charles Zuill Handout Final

Solo Exhibition

On Friday, September 12, 2025, Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art will open Charles Zuill: Portals to Another Dimension in the Rick Faries Gallery, a solo exhibition of one of Bermuda’s most visionary and influential artists. Curated by Lisa Howie (Black Pony Gallery), this landmark solo exhibition brings together Zuill’s recent works,  a collection that embodies his lifelong devotion to abstract expression and experimentation.

The exhibition will be on view through November 4, with an Artist Talk on October 3 (5:30–7pm).

Curatorial Statement

Defying gravity. Sculpting lines. Making the flat surface dimensional.
These are characteristics found in this recent series of silverpoint drawings on white gesso by local artist, educator, art critic, and cultural visionary Charles Zuill, PhD.
This investigation began while Charles was a graduate student at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the 1960s. He says, “I began a series of paintings based on the grey scale and I continued that series for the next 20 years. Then, in 1989, I branched into another direction, investigating natural forces utilising natural materials, such as sand and soil. It may seem that the 1989 shift was a radical departure from my earlier greyscale investigations, but appearances can be deceptive; it was a continuation of my use of gradients from light to dark.
In my research on light/dark gradients, I read the Elements of Drawing, by the nineteenth-century, English art critic and art theorist, John Ruskin, in which he stated that he could make mud glow, if he were allowed to gradate it. That was a challenge I had to try. So, using Bermuda paleosol, or fossil soil, I began working in that direction, only to return to my earlier interests in tonal gradients, as with metal point and silverpoint drawings in 2020.
As a result of my teaching art history over many years, I had developed an interest in historic materials, such as encaustic and metal point drawings. With the Covid epidemic and lockdown, plus the forced relinquishing of my St. George’s studio, I used the time at home to explore and investigate the use of metal point as a drawing material.”

About Charles Zuill

Born in 1935 and raised on a farm in Bermuda where the roots of his experimental artmaking took hold, Charles Zuill was influenced by local artist Charles Lloyd Tucker and Swiss German artist Paul Klee, amongst others. He later earned a PhD in Art History from New York University. Upon returning to Bermuda, he devoted his passion to nurturing the local arts scene – teaching at Bermuda College, and playing a foundational role in the Bermuda Society of Arts, the Bermuda Arts Council, and the Bermuda National Gallery – institutions that continue to benefit from his dedication. Generations of Bermudian artists have felt the impact of his mentorship and vision.

Exhibition Review

Laura Watts, PhD in Art History, Professor Emeritus, Daemen University
Charles Zuill opens doors at Masterworks, The Royal Gazette (September 20, 2025)

Black Pony Gallery is proud to announce its participation in the upcoming 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2025 in New York, as a partner in the Caribbean Spotlight curated by ATLANTIC ARTHOUSE. For this special feature, the gallery will present the work of Dede Brown, a multidisciplinary artist from The Bahamas, whose powerful visual language contributes to the collective exhibition Crossfigurations.

Curated by Atlantic Arthouse Co-Founders Lisa Howie and Vanessa Selk, Crossfigurations brings together eleven artists from across the Caribbean Mid-Atlantic, examining the entanglements of the body and figuration within Caribbean cultures and diasporic narratives. The exhibition highlights the region’s diverse histories, spiritualities, and social landscapes, revealing how figurative representation becomes a site of memory, identity, and shared humanity.

In this context, Dede Brown’s work adds a vital voice to the conversation. Drawing from her Caribbean heritage and her background in design and photography, Brown creates layered, mixed media portraits that explore themes of feminine strength, identity, and healing. Combining digital collage with natural materials such as seafan coral and copper, her practice evokes a dreamlike, introspective world where personal experience meets collective resonance.

Black Pony Gallery is honored to present her work alongside an inspiring selection of regional artists in this landmark moment of visibility for Caribbean contemporary art at 1:54.

✨ Crossfigurations, Caribbean Spotlight curated by ATLANTIC ARTHOUSE | Lisa Howie & Vanessa Selk
📍 Booth 25 – @154artfair NY | Halo, 28 Liberty Street
🗓️ 8-11 May 2025

Black Pony Gallery is pleased to share that a selection of works by Caribbean Mid-Atlantic artists is currently on view and available for purchase at Cambridge Beaches Hotel, Bermuda.

This ongoing collaboration with hotel owners Dovetail + Co. began in 2022 with the curatorial selection of artwork for guest rooms and the on-site spa. Since then, the partnership has grown to include the gallery in the reception area (2023), an expanded selection in the boardroom (2024), and the introduction of new artists in 2025.

The current exhibition features original paintings and limited-edition prints by regional talent: Bermudian artists ABWilson, Meredith Andrews, James Cooper, Graham Foster, Teresa Kirby Smith, and Charles Zuill; Bahamian artist Dede Brown; Cayman artists Shane Aquârt (Dready), David Bridgeman, and Nasaria Chollett; and Cuban artists Osmeivy Ortega and Niels Reyes.