Philippe Dodard: Tradition Opens At The Frost Museum

From May 7, 2014 through June 29, 2014. Coincides with Haitian Heritage Month
Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU celebrates Haitian Heritage Month with an exhibition of works by Haitian artist Philippe Dodard, beginning with an opening reception on Wednesday, May 7, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. The reception is free and open to the public.

The exhibition, Philippe Dodard: Tradition, runs from May 7 through June 29. Dodard’s use of ink, paint and metal is celebrated throughout Haiti’s artistic community. While his Haitian influences are clearly evident, he has stretched tradition and, in doing so, created a fresh Haitian sophistication that is uniquely his own, the very definition of “independence.”

Dodard lives and creates from his home in Haiti. According to Dr. Carol Damian, Director & Chief Curator of the Frost Art Museum, Dodard’s art is as distinctive as it is engaging. “Too often, the art of Haiti is associated with naïve painters and a tourist market for colorful images of people and places that may belie the reality of their difficult existence. Dodard’s is different, and at the same time quite mainstream in its relationship to international trends of painterly expressionism and abstraction that place him within a contemporary milieu. Through his art, he reveals his ancestral heritage in contemporary terms for a new definition of culture and aesthetics that is intrinsically his own, yet belongs to a global world-view.”

Philippe Dodard: Tradition is curated by Michele Frisch.
Admission: Free and open to the public
Museum Hours: Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00am to 5:00pm, Sunday from 12:00pm to 5:00pm, Closed Mondays

This exhibition is free and open to the public.

The Patricia & Philip Frost Museum of Art
Florida International University, Modesto Modique Campus
10975 SW 17th St
Miami, Fl 33199
305.348.2890
[email protected]
www.thefrost.fiu.edu

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