{"id":44602,"date":"2023-05-27T15:01:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T15:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/haitian-heritage-month-celebrate-these-4-contemporary-haitian-artists-in-new-florida-exhibition\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T15:01:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T15:01:21","slug":"haitian-heritage-month-celebrate-these-4-contemporary-haitian-artists-in-new-florida-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/haitian-heritage-month-celebrate-these-4-contemporary-haitian-artists-in-new-florida-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Haitian Heritage Month: Celebrate These 4 Contemporary Haitian Artists in New Florida Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Just in time for Memorial Day weekend,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nsuartmuseum.org\/\">NSU\u00a0Art\u00a0Museum Fort Lauderdale<\/a> will open Cosmic Mirrors, a new exhibition recognizing the works of 27 Haitian artists, in honor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haitianheritagemuseum.org\/\">Haitian Heritage Month<\/a>. Spanning two centuries of art, the presentation pays homage to Haiti\u2019s political history and the country\u2019s creative abundance.<\/p>\n<p>Tout Moun Se Yo Moun (Everyone is Someone), \u00a9 Kathia St. Hilaire, 2022. Image: courtesy of NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2023; purchased with funds provided by Curator Circle. <\/p>\n<p>The exhibit runs parallel to <a href=\"https:\/\/nsuartmuseum.org\/exhibition\/kathia-st-hilaire-immaterial-being\/\">Kathia St. Hilaire: Immaterial Being<\/a>, the Museum\u2019s first solo mounting from the South Florida-raised artist.\u00a0As the child of\u00a0Haitian\u00a0immigrants, St. Hilaire combines found objects that act as symbols of the Black American experience with visual and material references to her\u00a0Haitian\u00a0culture. Together, they become joint a representation of St. Hilaire\u2019s identity formation, growing up within a diasporic Afro-Caribbean community in Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are three other artists to discover at the exhibit, which runs through Fall 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Robert Saint-Brice<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bust of a Figure Wearing Green, Robert Saint-Brice, 1960. Image: NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; gift of Miles and Adelaide Zisson.\" class=\"wp-image-215210 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/91.65.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1576\" height=\"1920\"\/>Bust of a Figure Wearing Green, Robert Saint-Brice, 1960. Image: NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; gift of Miles and Adelaide Zisson.<\/p>\n<p>Cosmic Mirrors\u00a0commences with the visionary paintings of Robert Saint-Brice, who was born in P\u00e9tion-Ville, Haiti two years before the turn of the 20th century. Although he could not read nor write, Saint-Brice\u2019s art expressed a thousand words, and he found success from his work in his fifties. Saint-Brice was also a voodoo priest and stated he received his inspiration\u2014messages from his ancestors\u2014in dreams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Roland Dorcely<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Lumiere bleue (Blue Light), Roland Dorcely, \" class=\"wp-image-215214 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/61-1.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1335\"\/>Lumiere bleue (Blue Light), Roland Dorcely, 1958. Image:<br \/>\nNSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; gift of Mrs. Edna K. Allen.<\/p>\n<p>Considered one of\u00a0Haiti&#8217;s preeminent modernists, Roland Dorcely expressed his creative visions through cubistic and abstract paintings. The Port-au-Prince-born artist&#8217;s work is on display at the\u00a0 Museum of Modern\u00a0Art in New York City and his poems were published in Jean-Paul Satre&#8217;s magazine\u00a0Les Temps Modernes.\u00a0In 2020, three years after his death at age 87, Dorcely\u2019s paintings were featured in the Spotlight section of the Frieze New York\u00a0art\u00a0fair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Myrlande Constant<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Azaca M\u00e9deh N\u00e9gre Montagne La Vo\u00fbte, \u00a9 Myrlande Constant, early 2000s. Image courtesy of NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2023.&#10;&#10;\" class=\"wp-image-215209 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1020587.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1377\" height=\"1920\"\/>Azaca M\u00e9deh N\u00e9gre Montagne La Vo\u00fbte, \u00a9 Myrlande Constant, early 2000s. Image: Image courtesy of NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2023, The constant is on loan from Richard Levine, AIA. <\/p>\n<p>Textile artist Myrlande Constant is well-known for her Vodou-themed flags, also called drapo Vodou. She began her cultivation of the art form in the 1990s and her work grew in size over the years, as she prefers to create in large-scale tableaus. Constant\u2019s work is also featured in a retrospective organized by the Fowler Museum UCLA, the first time a U.S.-based museum space has devoted an entire exhibition to the work of a\u00a0Haitian\u00a0female contemporary artist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebony.com\/haitian-heritage-month-celebrate-these-4-contemporary-haitian-artists-in-new-florida-exhibition\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for Memorial Day weekend,\u00a0NSU\u00a0Art\u00a0Museum Fort Lauderdale will open Cosmic Mirrors, a new exhibition recognizing the works of 27 Haitian artists, in honor of Haitian Heritage Month. Spanning two centuries of art, the presentation pays homage to Haiti\u2019s political history and the country\u2019s creative abundance. Tout Moun Se Yo Moun (Everyone is Someone),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-life-and-culture"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44604,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44602\/revisions\/44604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}