The zemi inspired art of Roy Lawaetz
Modular Triangular System receives world-wide attention
Maura Curley
Roy Lawaetz, a native of St. Croix, has put the Virgin Islands on the global map by exhibiting his paintings at prestigious art events around the world.
Recently Lawaetz will be among exhibitors at the Concours International d’art Contemporain du Gemluc in Monte Carlo France, and in November he will exhibt in Paris , with the Salon des Artistes Indépendants, at the Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill.
Lawaetz doesn’t paint the often too plentiful tropical images of beaches and palm trees. Instead his work is deeply rooted in Caribbean culture.
Lawaetz is known for “The Modular Triangular System” a style that uses triangles as the basis for his images. According to Lawaetz his concept dates back thousands of years before Columbus discovered the New World when the indigenous Carib Indians called the Taino, carved out tiny-triangular-shaped stones known as zemis.
Lawaetz says he transforms the Taino's triangles of stone into “a complex syntax for picture-making on canvas.”
Read more about Roy Lawaetz and his work here.
Maura Curley is publisher of virginvoices.com
Image of book cover courtesy Roy Lawaetz
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