A selection of earlier works, installations, photographic material, and related archive documentation spanning different periods of Dexta Mega’s practice.
LOOK UP, 2023. Sumi-ink on canvas, 60 x 40 cm.
UNTITLED (Party In The Sky), 2023. Acrylics, sumi-ink and oils on panel board, 60 x 40 cm, Work destroyed by the artist.
On-site, Futura Laboratories Studio Residency, 2021 – 2022.
Six-month period at Futura Laboratories Studio, New York, centred on character and sculpture development, support with studio spatial installation, the onboarding of new studio assistants, and ongoing historical research. Facilitated by the artist Futura and MUTANT GENESIS, and connected to ongoing research activity, this period adds to Dexta Mega’s studio process, object development, spatial thinking, and research within a longer-standing professional and cultural relationship.
Self-Portrait as a TriniBad Artist, 2019. Archival self-portrait from a return to Trinidad and Tobago between 2018 and 2020, undertaken as both personal recalibration and ongoing subcultural research. The image belongs to a period of close observation of the movement later known as “TriniBad”, approached through direct proximity, informal listening networks, and lived alignment with local circles.
Just Blame It On Richter Folk, 2019. Acrylics and spray paint on panel board, approx. 40 x 60 cm, known through photographic documentation only.
Pure Abstract 77.7 / (detail) with dress, Communion Tokyo, 2017,
archival installation documentation.
Cosmic Shoreline (detail), Installation, Communion Tokyo, 2016 pastel chalks, spray paint and mixed medium on panel board 500 x 200 cm.
BETA SYMBOLISM, acrylics and marker pen on canvas, 30 x 30 cm, 2014.
More Meat, 2014, acrylics, inks and oils on technical drawing paper, approx. 24 x 32 cm, private collection.
MONSTER BITER, 2013, acrylics and marker pen on canvas, 30 x 30 cm.
CLUSTERFUCK (detail), 2013, pastel chalk and gesso on artist-grade paper,
approx. 70 × 90 cm, [View Work Statement].
629, diptych 2012 – 2013, marker pen and spray paint on wood panel, approx, 18 x 14 cm, 18.5 x 14 cm, private collection.
Neo-Japonisme, study, 2012 – 2013. Posca marker pens, spray paint and carbon copy on panel board, 18 x 18 cm.
Too Future, 2012, photograph study, marker pen and carbon copy on paper.
Untitled X X X (Killer Of The Duppies), 2010, marker pen and acrylic on canvas, (DocoMo collaboration).
Great Wall Of Moon, “STUDY”, 2003 – 2009, acrylic emulsion and marker pen on canvas 114.3 x 143.3 cm.
Mural installation, MARS Gallery, residency, 2001, marker pen on gesso coated wall, approx, 200 x 280 cm, supported by Toshiba.
UNTITLED, (Pandora’s Box), 2001, marker pen and mixed mediums on panel board.
ANGEL, 1999, photo copy, spray paint, marker pen and acrylic emulsion on canvas, 114.3 x 114.3 cm, private collection.
THE SCREAM !, 1997, ball pen-ink and carbon copy on washi-paper, approx, 23 x 37 cm.
CHECK POINT CHARLIE, 1996, spray paint, acrylic emulsion and marker pen on canvas, approx, 180 x 120 cm, from exhibition, ”Check Point Charlie” Amrita, Tokyo 1996.
JIMI HENDRIX, 1995 – 1999, photocopy print on canvas, private collection.
UNTITLED, 1991, Photo emulsion on canvas, approx 24 x 32 cm. Exhibited at Shoto Gallery, private collection.