Michael Gordon exhibits at Belmopan Museum

The State of the Nation address was not the only big event taking place today in the nation’s capital. Across town this afternoon Mayor Anthony Chanona was cutting the ribbon on the latest art show at Belmopan’s Museum of Belize.

Jacqueline Woods, Reporting

The exhibition “Zinc Lion” is a collection of paintings thirty-eight year old Michael Gordon has done over the past several years. Gordon, a former street-side artist, has come a long way in doing what he loves best. Today he says he hopes people will not only come to view his works, but be inspired by his personal achievements.

Michael Gordon, Artist

“To share the over ability of one to another. That’s the kind of feeling that I try to…It’s something that I appreciate more than to say, well yes, I am in that and I will appreciate that more.

This is about six years and this is not even all. I had more paintings, but to make myself start out, when I usually go into it, I usually find myself rejecting one or maybe two or three.”

Jacqueline Woods

“What do you want to see happen to all these painting? Where do you store them?”

Michael Gordon

“These were made at the Image Factory or my house. They were like a build-up for myself as an artist, to express the things I can do, in a whole or to make myself maybe a plate of food or a little money or something like that.”

The exhibition will run until the end of September at the Museum in Belmopan. Reporting for News 5, Jacqueline Woods.

The exhibition was made possible through the co-operation of the Museum of Belize and the Image Factory Art Foundation.