Alain Joséphine (b. 1968) is a Martinican visual artist, Jazz musician and poet. His work has been showcased in a number of notable exhibitions and prestigious art fairs across the globe. Currently living and working Guadeloupe, he expresses his art through a range of mediums from works on paper to large-scale paintings. A constant unifier throughout his work is his insistence on capturing the poetry of his surroundings. The artist puts this down to his childhood in the largely untouched and sparsely populated commune of Riviere-Pilote in Martinique, where his imagination was captured by the rough wilderness and the green rolling hills which made up the areas natural terrain.
Now a professor of Visual Arts, his creativity and illustrative ideas continue to inspire those around him. Last year, his work was showcased at
Transatlantic Connections: Caribbean Narratives in Contemporary Art, a group exhibition presented on the occasion of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, at Christie’s. In early 2024 his work was also presented at Dulwich Picture Gallery’s
Soulscapes, an exhibition of landscapes by artists from the African Diaspora.
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There are some fantastic works here. You can almost feel the shift in temperature between the cool of Alain Joséphine’s lovely, gesturally painted Martinique forest and the heat pounding down from the blue sky visible through the trees in his work ST 131 (2020)Nancy Durant
The Standard, Feb 2024
Soulscapes at Dulwich Picture Gallery review