Resumen

He fostered their interest in abstraction and combined it with iconography then current in Rastafarian circles. The result was imagery that paid homage to European modern art but was more deeply rooted in black nationalism.

He was initially trained as a sculptor but after returning from post-graduate studies in Canada he began to create paintings that with bold colour, clearly defined forms and self-conscious use of spatial relationships. He brought a fresh approach to Jamaican composition.Cadien’s work was informed by expressionist artists of a slightly older generation like Karl Parboosingh and Eugene Hyde and Kofi Kayiga. 

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  • Eric Cadien, Untitled, 1993
    Eric Cadien
    Untitled, 1993
    Bronze Sculpture
    18 x 6 x 4 in
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  • Eric Cadien, Untitled, 1993
    Eric Cadien
    Untitled, 1993
    Bronze Sculpture
    17 x 6 x 6 in
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  • Eric Cadien
    Kids on Bicycle, 1991
    Acrylic on Canvas
    20 x 24 in
    50.8 x 60.96 cm
  • Eric Cadien
    King Mask, 1991
    Acrylic on Canvas
    20 x 16 in
    50.8 x 40.64 cm
  • Eric Cadien
    Musician Scenes, 1991
    Acrylic on Canvas
    28 x 22 in
    71.12 x 55.88 cm
  • Eric Cadien
    Sleeping Figure in Chair, 1991
    Acrylic on Canvas
    12 x 18 in
    30.48 x 45.72 cm
  • Eric Cadien
    The Wait, 1991
    Acrylic on Canvas
    16 x 20 in
    40.64 x 50.8 cm
  • Eric Cadien
    Two Figures in Composition, 1991
    Acrylic on Canvas
    16 x 20 in
    40.64 x 50.8 cm
  • Eric Cadien, The Kiss, 1988
    Eric Cadien
    The Kiss, 1988
    Acrylic on Canvas
    51 x 36 in
    129.54 x 91.44 cm
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  • Eric Cadien, Red & White Figures, 1987
    Eric Cadien
    Red & White Figures, 1987
    Acrylic on Paper
    26 x 20 in
    66.04 x 50.8 cm
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  • Eric Cadien, Red Reclining Figures, 1987
    Eric Cadien
    Red Reclining Figures, 1987
    Acrylic on Paper
    26 x 20 in
    66.04 x 50.8 cm
    $ 1,200.00
  • Eric Cadien
    Three Kings, 1987
    Acrylic on Canvas
    48 x 40 in
    121.92 x 101.6 cm
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  • Eric Cadien, Figures in Composition, 1986
    Eric Cadien
    Figures in Composition, 1986
    Acrylic on Paper
    26 x 20 in
    66.04 x 50.8 cm
    $ 750.00 Sold
  • Eric Cadien, Figures in Composition, 1986
    Eric Cadien
    Figures in Composition, 1986
    Acrylic on Paper
    28 1/2 x 21 1/2 in
    72.4 x 54.6 cm
  • Eric Cadien, Reclining Woman, 1986
    Eric Cadien
    Reclining Woman, 1986
    Acrylic on Paper
    16.50 x 14 in
    41.91 x 35.56 cm
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  • Eric Cadien, Foggy Female Nude, 1983
    Eric Cadien
    Foggy Female Nude, 1983
    Pastel on paper
    20 x 26 in
    50.8 x 66.04 cm
  • Eric Cadien, Foggy Male Nude, 1983
    Eric Cadien
    Foggy Male Nude, 1983
    Pastel on paper
    26 x 20 in
    66.04 x 50.8 cm
  • Eric Cadien, Seated man with woman , 1983
    Eric Cadien
    Seated man with woman , 1983
    Gouache on paper
    26 x 20 in
    66.04 x 50.8 cm
  • Eric Cadien, Standing couple (1983), 1983
    Eric Cadien
    Standing couple (1983), 1983
    Gouache on paper
    15 x 11 in
    38.1 x 27.94 cm
  • Eric Cadien, Standing Figures, 1983
    Eric Cadien
    Standing Figures, 1983
    Pastel on paper
    26 x 20 in
    66.04 x 50.8 cm
  • Eric Cadien, Figure and Head in Composition, 1982
    Eric Cadien
    Figure and Head in Composition, 1982
    Pastel on paper
    15 x 22 in
    38.1 x 55.88 cm
  • Eric Cadien, Foggy Couple (1982), 1982
    Eric Cadien
    Foggy Couple (1982), 1982
    Pastel on paper
    26 x 20 in
    66.04 x 50.8 cm
  • Eric Cadien, Fragmented Standing Couple, 1982
    Eric Cadien
    Fragmented Standing Couple, 1982
    Gouache on paper
    26 x 20 in
    66.04 x 50.8 cm
  • Eric Cadien, Standing Group, 1982
    Eric Cadien
    Standing Group, 1982
    Gouache on paper
    20 x 25 in
    50.8 x 63.5 cm
  • Eric Cadien, Aztec Figure 1980, 1980
    Eric Cadien
    Aztec Figure 1980, 1980
    Acrylic on Paper
    22 x 15 in
    55.88 x 38.1 cm
  • Eric Cadien, Reclining Segmented Figure, 1980
    Eric Cadien
    Reclining Segmented Figure, 1980
    Watercolor on paper
    21 1/2 x 28 1/2 in
    54.6 x 72.4 cm
  • Eric Cadien, Segmented Figure (1980), 1980
    Eric Cadien
    Segmented Figure (1980), 1980
    Acrylic on Paper
    22 x 28.50 in
    55.88 x 72.39 cm
  • Eric Cadien, Segmented Figures, 1980
    Eric Cadien
    Segmented Figures, 1980
    Acrylic on Paper
    20.50 x 26 in
    52.07 x 66.04 cm

    Estimate: $900 - $1,200
    $ 1,400.00
  • Eric Cadien, Three figures (1980), 1980
    Eric Cadien
    Three figures (1980), 1980
    Gouache on paper
    26 x 20 in
    66.04 x 50.8 cm
  • Eric Cadien, Segmented Figures, 1979
    Eric Cadien
    Segmented Figures, 1979
    Acrylic on Paper
    26 x 20 in
    66.04 x 50.8 cm
  • Eric Cadien, Fragmented Space, 1977
    Eric Cadien
    Fragmented Space, 1977
    Gouache on paper
    18.50 x 26 in
    46.99 x 66.04 cm
    $ 1,400.00
  • Eric Cadien, Shapes in Space II, 1977
    Eric Cadien
    Shapes in Space II, 1977
    Mixed media on Paper
    42 x 28 in
    106.68 x 71.12 cm
  • Eric Cadien
    Figures with bicycle, 1975
    gouache on paper
    17.25 x 11.75 in
    43.81 x 29.84 cm
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  • Eric Cadien, Segmented Figure, 1975
    Eric Cadien
    Segmented Figure, 1975
    Gouache on paper
    17.25 x 11.75 in
    43.81 x 29.84 cm
    $ 650.00
  • Eric Cadien
    "Cyclist and Friend" 1991
    Acrylic on Canvas
    30 x 24 in
    76.2 x 60.96 cm
  • Eric Cadien
    4 Figures in Blue Background
    Acrylic on Canvas
    22 x 28 in
    55.88 x 71.12 cm
  • Eric Cadien
    Shapes in Space #2
    Acrylic on Paper
    42 x 28 in
    106.68 x 71.12 cm
  • Eric Cadien, Three Standing Figures (1983)
    Eric Cadien
    Three Standing Figures (1983)
    watercolor on paper
    26 x 20 in
    66.04 x 50.8 cm
  • Eric Cadien
    Youth
    watercolor on paper
    20 x 16 in
    50.8 x 40.64 cm
Biografía

Cadien was too young to completely identify with the concerns of Jamaica’s earliest abstract painters, neither was he a part of that later group of Expressionist painters of the eighties labelled ‘new imagists’. 

Born Trelawny, Jamaica – Died Kingston, Jamaica

Eric Cadien attended the ‘art school’ during the dynamic seventies when self- reliance and self-determination became the political watch-words that guided Jamaica beyond independence towards self-government and Democratic Socialism. At the Jamaica School of Art Jerry Craig and Hope Brooks taught him, but his earliest influences in terms of style and technical development came from artists such as Winston Patrick and Osmond Watson and Kofi Kayiga.

In the last years of his life he reveled in the 2D surface, his work became more representational and the figure as nude, musician, kings and queens, created a pantheon of images rooted African and Jamaican symbolism. His work would set a precedent for those students he later tutored in experimental painting and sculpture at the Jamaica School of Art such as Omari Ra/Robert Cookhorne, Kalfani Ra/Douglas Wallace, and Stanford Watson. Cadien was too young to completely identify with the concerns of Jamaica’s earliest abstract painters, neither was he a part of that later group of Expressionist painters of the eighties labelled ‘new imagists’. The arrested development of his oeuvre due to his untimely death has allowed others to view him as an artist who bridged the two movements in the development Jamaica’s modern art. But, Cadien’s own thoughts about creativity and his paintings exhibited just prior to his death suggest that his work was still in transition and not limited to any school or style. He wrote: ‘A consistent artist is a thoughtless one, because he conforms to a style; he repeats himself and thinks in a groove. The artist must always try to understand himself, and understanding cannot come through conformity, but through self -knowledge which is always new.’

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