![]() ![]() My paintings have been acquired by corporate and private collectors in Paris, Italy, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Yorkshire, Boston, New York, and Miami. I have had the good fortune of having my work included in exhibitions at museums and galleries including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The New Bedford Art Museum Centre D’art Visuel Galerie and Musée D’Art Naïf, Québec The National Association of Women Artists, Inc., New York Saatchi Gallery online Aurora Gallery, Fitchburg Art Museum, Worcester The Providence Art Club and the Kim Po Gallery, New York. My textile pieces represent a more physical form of work and a welcome re-connection to the ancient technique of appliqué, an important art from Benin, West Africa, the ancestral homeland named by many Haitians. I want to make paintings whose quality in texture gesture beyond the 2-dimensional and suggests the sculptural. For the past several years, I have painted exclusively with palette knives, oil sticks, and wax paste (teaching myself to work in this manner with these materials). Improvisation greatly informs my approach to making paintings. I am interested in representations of complicated figures at ease with themselves who at the same time mirror particular identities. The female figure and conceptions of women have figured prominently in my work: from Haitian market women with pipes and Japanese geishas, to thinkers, nudes, and mothers. Using a Haitian cosmological term, I view my role as an artist as that of a c hwal, or vessel of a variety of traditions and aesthetic frameworks, and through which new ideas also flow. I believe in the transformative and healing potential of the arts and art-production, and consider myself a cultural worker. ![]() Art-making is an integral part of my life experience, coming from a culture steeped in the arts. ![]() My training includes studies at and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston-and immersion in Haitian art of multiple media. I am a Haitian-born painter, textile designer, and sculptor. ![]()
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