Curated by Natalie De Jesus & Tiarra Inez Brown

Opening Reception: Friday, August 15 | 6–9PM

On view: August 16—November 8, 2025

Paradise/Mash-Up presents a striking collection of new and recent paintings by Andrae Green that explore the deep emotional terrain of memory and identity. With a focus on the tender intimacies of everyday life and personal relationships, Green reexamines his deep connection to his hometown of Kingston, Jamaica, while also celebrating the rich history of the Jamaican diaspora in Boston, Massachusetts.

Both port cities, Kingston and Boston, share layered maritime legacies shaped by colonialism, migration, and resilience. Through Green’s lens, these histories collide and coalesce, creating a vibrant visual language that speaks to the ancestral, cultural, and emotional aspects of both places. The tension between losing and belonging is palpable throughout the exhibition, capturing the complex push and pull of the diasporic experience. 

Green’s work channels this sense of displacement through his signature use of fragmental imagery. The artist crafts a “mash-up”–a term in Jamaican Patois meaning broken or transformed–blending dreamlike scenes rooted in time, and geography. The resulting compositions are poetic and disorienting, offering viewers an invitation to navigate the blurred boundaries between past and present, paradise, and exile. 

Paradise/Mash-up is both a celebration and an interrogation of heritage, of home, and the shifting tides that shape diasporic identity. The layered visual narrative of the works reflects both the beauty and the fragmentation of lived experience.