Gordon Solomon

Like a master weaver creating a great historical tapestry for the court of a great king, Gordon Solomon is an artist whose thread is pure color, and whose loom is the paintbrush. Like those tapestry-weavers of old, Mr. Solomon’s work depicts great battles; but they are the gentler battles of people struggling to find their place in a world which buffets them, while maintaining dignity and love in their hearts. They are universal stories which have been told across the whole world since time began, but they echo and resonate in Mr. Solomon’s paintings within the theatre of the Cayman Islands, the land Mr. Solomon knows, belongs to, and loves.
Born and raised in George Town, Grand Cayman in 1977, Mr. Solomon’s art- language is composed of a vast reservoir of word-pictures, taken from the things he has seen all around him; in towns and by the sea, boats and everyday life. Ordinary people engaged in often extraordinary trials, soothed and made sacred by the power of brush and paint.
“The love of art and the desire to create has ever been present,” he said, talking about the passion which has always driven him to create.
But there has always been a chasm between artisan and artist, and soon Mr Solomon’s true artistic spirit began...

2013– 2015 Teachers aide certification - UCCI
Teaching education
Classroom management
Integrating technology in the classroom
2003– 2004 Institute of Superior Art - Cuba
Fine Art Techniques
2002 – International Fine Art College - USA
Fine Art Painting
Creating a Curriculum
2001 - Taller De Graffica - Cuba
Lithography Art Techniques
Spanish
1994 – 1995 Community College of the Cayman Isl
Building Science
Architectural Drawing

Solo Exhibitions
2014 “DUS” Full of Beans Café – July, UNLIKE Cayman Festival - September
2013 “Red Sky at Night” Cayman National Cultural Foundation/ “Glitz Fundraiser” Cayman Prep School/ The Island Living Show, Exhibition/Demonstration.
2012 “Paths” Visual Arts Society/ Ogier Art Award, 2nd place recipient/ “Bikes, Birds, Boats” Full of Beans Café – September.
2011 “Paint meets poetry” Camana Bay.
2010 Sweet Life: Infinite Games Arteccentrix Gallery
2009 “Caymanian In New York” Broadway Gallery, New York/ “Painters Muse” Full of Beans Café.
2007 “The Sexes” Sapphire Lounge/ “Art and Soul” Cayman Jazz Fest.
2006 “Born In It” Full of Beans Cafe -July
2005 “True Colours” Westin Casuarina Hotel - September

Group Exhibitions
2015 “Emerging” Ritz Carlton Art Gallery, Grand Cayman
2014 “Artexpo 2014” NY; Basak Malone LLC
2013 “Season’s Greetings” Native Son’s/ “Art by the Bay” Cayman Islands Visual Arts Society/“Native Tongue” Group Exhibition/demonstration Camana Bay/ “Transcending” Island Living Show/ Ritz Carlton Art Gallery, Grand Cayman.
2012 “Changes” Arteccentrix Gallery. UCCI 50/50 seminar. “Founded Upon The Seas” The Cayman Islands National Gallery – June. “VisVires” Arteccentrix Gallery – May....