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Margaret Rose Vendryes
  • Female
  • Brookline, MA
  • United States
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Will we, as an elite, art-aware group, ever transcend separatism?

Started this discussion. Last reply by J.T. Smith Jan 31, 2011. 4 Replies

Are there any among us who collect art regardless of the artist's ethnic or cultural affiliation because the work speaks to us.  As a scholar, historian and artist, I continue to appreciate, and then…Continue

 

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Artist Statement - Act I

After working my way across the stepping-stones towards success in academia (I was a tenured professor of art history), I paused long enough to rethink my direction. I have always been an artist first. Painting and assemblage is where I live to the fullest. But, my professional experiences before turning to the studio full time made me who I am today. Because of my years of studying art history, I am aware of the ordeals I will surely have to shoulder as well as the rewards of going forward despite them.
Like many artists of African descent before me, I am inspired by black magnificence in a global art arena that fails to recognize black aesthetic power. For my current project, African Divas, my models are actually found objects:  Forgotten LP jackets. Lifting beautiful black women’s images out of mass reproduced marketing environments and transforming them into beautiful, large format, unique paintings has been work, yes, but wrapped in pure pleasure. Here, I pay homage to dazzling African talents.
Capturing a face and body language in oil on canvas represents more to me than rendering a likeness.
My bloodlines are diverse, but it is my modicum of African ancestry that drives me to be present through art. I have spent decades learning about Africa and its many nations through scholarship, travel and collecting African art. Like many people of the African Diaspora, I will never know my African ancestors. But, I commune with them through art so seductive to me that I wonder why it took me so long to finally focus on this studio work. The provocative, aggressive, and sensual beauty of the arts born of Africa are at the center of my current practice and my self.

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At 8:45am on November 17, 2011, Jan Peters said…

Congratulations! The Divas are special.

At 8:39am on September 27, 2011, Janelle Dowell said…
Congratulations!
At 1:28pm on August 17, 2011, adger cowans said…
yea sorry been away  ........i love  joyce
At 4:58pm on June 12, 2011, Marlina Hullum said…

Any shows coming up?  Will be in Boston June 15-22.

Marlina

At 7:14pm on April 28, 2011, Marlina Hullum said…
Sounds like a plan, will be in Beantown mid June.  Coloredglass4u@yahoo.com
At 9:38pm on April 27, 2011, Tarra Louis-Charles said…
Beautiful art! I didn't know there were so many talented artist right here in Boston. I would love to attend a show in the future. Very inspiring
At 7:34pm on February 10, 2011, Marlina Hullum said…

Love the DIVAS. Just left Beantown (hometown) and all that SNOW!!!!

Marlina

At 7:45pm on February 4, 2011, Grant Rogers said…
this is beautiful work.
At 1:35pm on December 15, 2010, Martin Lindsey said…

Thanks for connecting, Margaret.

At 5:31pm on October 24, 2010, Bernard Stanley Hoyes said…
Congratulations on your Show. The anxiety never ceases. I work in Kingston and in L.A.
My base is L.A. Last summer I worked out of Amsterdam, and am working on going back.
 
 
 

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