Roslyn M. Dupré: Southern Gothic
May 28 - July 16,2022
From Box 13 ArtSpace:
"In Southern Gothic, Roslyn M. Dupré ponders the place and the time we inhabit, records her observations, and questions assumptions about the collective. With mixed media works that include unuseful tools, unwearable clothes, and unfamiliar furnishings, she conjures the spirit of a humid, workaday world, where superstition and religion, race and gender, and prayer and labor are the foundation stones upon which the home is built. The work encourages viewers to evaluate the moment for shared experience, climate and geography, and invites them to create narratives and build stories. Spanish moss is coiled into sturdy rope and fashioned into a makeshift, but threatening, weapon. Found denim is cut and folded into bandages, encasing and binding objects in a manner suggestive of mummification and funereal rites. The writers of the American South and their stories are alluded to as she explores themes of inhumanity and mysticism, and opens the door to redemption.
Roslyn M. Dupré is a Gulf Coast native and Houston resident of 17 years. Her work speaks to the turmoil of the moment, by reminding us of where we have been, acknowledging where we are, and pointing to possibilities for where we could go. As a Louisiana Creole woman of color, she has spent her life in the interstitial spaces of an antiquated binary racial system, along with the ghosts of her African and European ancestors. “I simultaneously belong neither here nor there and belong both here and there,” she says. “My work is my response.” In her multidisciplinary practice, Dupré works with natural materials and traditional craftsmanship to fashion woven, welded, or wooden constructions. Her projects vary with concept and her methods often incorporate domestic handicrafts like hand-weaving, embroidery and knitting with fine art fabrication and foundry work. Dupré recently completed the Glassell Studio School Block programs XX and XXI, and the Glassell/MFAH Certificate of Achievement in Sculpture."
Opening: May 28, 2022 | 1-5 pm
Closing: July 16, 2022 | 1-5 pm
BOX13 Art Space
6700 Harrisburg Blvd.
Houston, TX 77001
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