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Artist Statement:
."TAKING VOICE
The Works of Marie Therese
Dupoux
From since the beginning of
what is now known as Haiti—the
First Black Republic
Haitian women artists have
contributed to the visual arts
in diverse and stimulating
ways. Whether as creators and
innovators of numerous forms
of artistic expression,
important patrons and
collectors, they have been and
continue to be significant
contributors to Haiti’s
production of visual meanings.
For the most part, however,
traditional art history has
systematically excluded or
masked women’s participation
in
the visual arts. Instead of
recognizing the social
barriers to entry women faced
when
trying to engage with the art
world, the discipline has
generally deemed women’s
contributions as non-existent
or inferior to those of men’s.
As a gendered discourse, art
history has also contributed
to the socially constructed
sexual divisions of a
patriarchic
society. The majority of art
historians have celebrated and
privileged individual
creativity as the apogee of
artistic greatness, which they
then assigned as the property
of
only a select masculinity. It
took the intervention of
feminism in the late 20th
century to
begin to reframe the
discipline. The feminist
engagement helped to move
attention
away from the idealization...
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Artist Exhibitions:
1998 La Grand Arche Museum
Paris - France
1998 Bibliotheque Municipale
Nantes - France
1998 Convention Center
Los Angeles, California
1997 Lobby Art - World Bank
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
1996 Bienal Internacional de
Pintura
Cuenca, Ecuador
Special Award
1995 Galerie Marassa
Por-au-Prince, Haiti
1993 Suntrust Bank Lobby
Miami, Florida
1992 ...
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Marithou Dupoux Biography:
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Female
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Married
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Self Taught |
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painting, ceramic,pottery, wood sculpture,stone sculpture,papier mache,raku.miniatures,icones.beads |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Drawing Pen
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Abstract Expressionism - (1940 - 1955)
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