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  Back Home is Trini to the Bone on a Toronto gallery wal l(s) By Stephen Weir It was a long time coming, but last week The Toronto Star published a full-page article about Kareem-Anthony Ferreira, the Hamilton artist whose work LeBron James owns. Ferreira has a new show at the Towards Gallery in Toronto called Back Home, featuring four massive works inspired by Trinidad and Tobago. The exhibition is on display at their Sterling Road location near Bloor and Lansdowne. Although Ferreira has achieved significant success across North America discerning art buyers —LeBron James purchased one of his early large paintings and installed it in his Akron dining room—the Trinidadian-Canadian artist has largely flown under the radar of Canada’s mainstream media. A first-generation Canadian with strong Trinidadian roots, Kareem-Anthony Ferreira is the son of renowned Hamilton artist and educator Roger Ferreira. Like father, like son, both artists often draw inspiration from the scenes and people o

  The Art Gallery of Hamilton Is Trini to the Bone  (at least until January)   Between being born in Winnipeg and now living in Hamilton, artist Roger Ferreira, had a long stop in Trinidad where he went to school and learned how to paint. He and his artist son Kareem are now being featured at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and some of  Roger’s water colours are best described in David Rudder terms – these Caribbean themed  canvases are “Trini to the Bone”. Watercolour above Their exhibition,  Gatherings: Roger Ferreira and Kareem-Anthony Ferreira,  opened last week and will hang in the downtown public gallery until January 8 th , 2023.   This major exhibition by Hamilton-based father and son artists Roger Ferreira and Kareem-Anthony Ferreira features over 30 paintings spanning Roger’s 35-year career and highlights the accomplishments of Kareem’s emerging practice.   Roger and his family left Trinidad and Tobago and moved to Hamilton in the late 1980s. He quickly established himself in th