Actor, dancer, musician, director, choreographer, and artist, Geoffrey Holder (1930–2014) was a Trinidadian-American Renaissance man. Larger than life at six-foot-six, he did everything with a magisterial flourish, yet was dead serious about his art. Born in 1930 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Holder moved to New York City in 1954, urged to come by the choreographer Agnes de Mille, who saw him dance in St. Thomas. After studying with Katharine Dunham, he joined the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and then began starring on Broadway in musicals and plays, and in movies. A Tony winner for both the direction and costume design of The Wiz (1975), Holder also choreographed dances for Alvin Ailey’s company and the Dance Theatre of Harlem. The paintings on view in this exhibition at James Fuentes come from Holder’s nightlife series. They focus on dance halls, and capture the presence, the energy, the impact of the human body in motion. —Laura Jacobs