?Multiple Personalities?, is the first piece of art to be seen approaching the ACE Gallery from the reception area ? although the whole art show could be called Multiple Personalities of Graham Foster.

In this piece, painted in acrylic on a wooden door, there are eight columns and 16 rows of tribalist heads, or masks.

They are in pleasing shades of orange, variations of red, brown and green with muted earth tones as backgrounds in each rectangle. Black defines features, especially eyes looking straight ahead.

They look more alien than human. There are checkerboards, polka dots, swirls...but no pattern is over done. Some of these images are repeated in other works of art in the show.

Walking towards the gallery three slender metal sculptures come into view.

?Votive Darts?, are about 8, 5 and 4 feet in height and each is topped with triangular shapes reaching to pierce the ceiling.

They rise from pointed legs which almost pierce the hardwood floor. Walking close the spring in the floor causes them to shimmer and shake, dancing intricate shadows against the wall.

Next to them is the shadow of ram?s horns curling against the wall like a cartoon character.

There is nothing cartoonish about ?The Idol?, however.

The horns are mounted on a base and head of welded steel with beads at the joint. It looks organically perfect.

At the back of the gallery are three life-sized helmet heads of a wild welder transmuting steel into fetish. There are embedded shells, symbols and plugs in the ?mouths? on chains.

Through two of them it?s possible to look from the back through small holes into, and out of the ?eyes.?

The ?necks? taper, complimented by tapered plinths. They are marvellously textured in tactile steel and called ?Trinity.?

Mr. Foster describes his work as taking African and Oceanic Tribal art to a post-apocalyptic stage with welded steel.

?Some of the stuff I know might be hard to sell but once the germ of an idea is formed in my head I can?t get it out until it becomes a 2D, or 3D, reality. That?s what keeps me going through hours and hours of welding ? the anticipation of the final piece.?

?Birds of Paradise? seems like a sculpture to be worshipped. It is embellished with teeth of the extinct great white shark tied to a circle with copper wire around a triangular ?head.?

An arm branches and dangles palm length cylindrical Indian glass beads. There is a handle on a crank just begging to turn it on its base of a weathered block of wood.

Also in the gallery are three head studies in acrylic on canvas creating a nice contrast with the sculptures. Large blank, black eyes seem innocent against vibrant backgrounds of colour reminiscent of a few of the heads in ?Multiple Personalities.?

Out in the hallway are a couple of his classic fish, one on a bicycle. ?Exoskeleton?, is a whimsical, mind boggling creation of curving tentacles, tail, teeth and gills.

?Tuna? is a brilliant, finely executed fish.

?Dark Waters?, is an absolutely pleasing, somewhat simple sculpture. Two figures, male and female, stand on separate diving boards, ladders descend to the waves of water. Underneath is fish, hollow inside, on a curvaceous base.

The rest of the art are all paintings on doors.

?Mako and Jack Crevalles? are finely executed fish, one looks happy, the other a bit sad.

?The Predator? looks like a post-apocalyptic spear fisherman. And ?Fishing the Twilight Zone? is full of Mr. Foster?s crazy, wild sea creatures curving into and around each other.

The fishers in a small boat above seem oblivious to the scary world below. ?The Crossing? is a good laugh. There are stripe suited walkers on tight ropes above a dark sea of simply coloured fish, one walker is inside a red fish.

Leaving the ACE reception area it?s easy to miss two other paintings. One is called ?The Aftermath?, crucifixes are tilted crazily amidst fantastic houses with coloured lights shining from within.

A dove like bird perches on a roof and coloured fish swim the water. A blue cone triangle points upwards to a clouded moon.

Mr. Foster is the only Bermudian who will exhibit at ACE gallery this year. His art will be on display at the ACE Gallery until mid-May.