Paul Gardère Explained

Paul Claude Gardère (1944, in Port au Prince, Haiti – 2011, in New York City) was a Haitian-born, Brooklyn-based[1] visual artist whose work explored "post-colonial history, cultural hybridization, race, and identity, in and beyond the Haitian diaspora."[2] Gardère's work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States, including at institutions such as the Studio Museum in Harlem,[3] the Figge Art Museum,[4] Lehigh University,[5] Pomona College Museum of Art,[6] and the Jersey City Museum,[7] and is included in a number of prominent institutional collections,[8] including that of Thea Museum of Modern Art in New York,[9] the Studio Museum in Harlem,[10] the Brooklyn Museum,[11] the New Orleans Museum of Art,[12] Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,[13] [14] The Milwaukee Art Museum,[15] the Figge Art Museum,[16] the Columbus Museum,[17] the Beinecke Library at Yale University[18] and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.[19]

Education

Gardère studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1960 to 1961, where he worked with Charles Alston,[20] and at Yale University summer school of music and art in 1966. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture in 1967.[21] He earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from Hunter College in 1972.[22] He was an Artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem,[23] the Jamaica Arts Center, Long Island University, and completed a 5-month residency at Monet's Gardens[24] in Giverny, France on a grant from the Lila Acheson Wallace Foundation.[25] Reflecting on his time at Giverny, Gardère has said, "Gardening is an apt metaphor for global colonialism."[26]

Background

Gardère was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1944. He emigrated to New York City in 1959. While studying at Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture in New York, he developed a personal style that blended "Haitian regionalist ideas, painting styles, and cultural symbols" with "the larger aesthetics of Modern art".[21] His work is heavily informed by "religious and mythological symbolism,"[21] which he saw "as a way of metaphysical bridge building between cultures, drawing inspiration from the Old Masters and European Catholicism as well as Haitian regionalism and Vodou."[21]

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Notes and References

  1. The New Yorker Magazine, Paul Gardere. .
  2. Web site: Biographical information on the website for Paul Gardère Studio.
  3. Studio: The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, Fall 2018 / Winter 2019
  4. Web site: Restoring the Spirit, Celebrating Haitian Art, Exhibition Website.
  5. Web site: Exhibition Website.
  6. Web site: Exhibition Website.
  7. "Paul Gardère at Jersey City Museum," Art in America, Exhibition review by Reagan Upshaw, January 2000
  8. Web site: CV on Artist's Official Website.
  9. Web site: Acquisition Letter on Artist's Official Website.
  10. Web site: Acquisition Letter on Artist's Official Website.
  11. Web site: Acquisition Letter on Artist's Official Website.
  12. Web site: Acquisition Letter on Artist's Official Website.
  13. Web site: New York Public Library Collection Online.
  14. Web site: Acquisition Letter on Artist's Official Website.
  15. Web site: Milwaukee Art Museum 2014 Annual Report Page 28 Acquisitions: Paul Gardère, Once Upon a Time, 2002 . 2015 . en.
  16. Web site: Figge Art Museum Collection Online.
  17. Web site: Columbus Museum Collection Website.
  18. Web site: Beinecke Library Collection Online.
  19. Web site: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Collection Online.
  20. Web site: Fenstermaker . Will . Paul Gardère's Syncretic Modernism . Independent Art Fair . 19 May 2023.
  21. Web site: Cooper Union Alumni Page. 19 November 2017 .
  22. Web site: Artist's Official Website.
  23. Web site: Studio Museum in Harlem Artist Residency List. 3 April 2017 .
  24. Web site: Jersey CIty Museum Catalog Interview with the artist.
  25. News: Profile of the artist in the New York Times. The New York Times . 8 April 1995 . Pierre-Pierre . Garry .
  26. Web site: Fenstermaker . Will . Paul Gardère's Syncretic Modernism . Independent Art Fair . 19 May 2023.
  27. Web site: Exhibition Website.
  28. Web site: Exhibition Website.
  29. Web site: Exhibition Catalogue.
  30. Web site: Published Press Release for the Exhibition on the University's Website.
  31. Web site: Exhibition Website.
  32. Web site: South Florida Sun Sentinel Newspaper Exhibition Review. 10 May 2001 .
  33. News: New York Times Review. The New York Times . 13 November 1998 . Cotter . Holland .
  34. Web site: Exhibition Website.
  35. Web site: Joan Mitchell Foundation Online.
  36. Web site: Artist Profile on Africanah. 2 December 2017 .
  37. Web site: New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship Online.
  38. Web site: Studio Museum in Harlem Residency List. 3 April 2017 .

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