The Ties that Bind: Haiti, the United States, and the Art of Ulrick Jean-Pierre in Comparative Perspective
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
The Ties that Bind: Haiti, the United States, and the Art of Ulrick Jean-Pierre in Comparative Perspective
Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
Galleries 315 and 316, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
The Ties That Bind reveals the deep historical connections between Haiti and the United States through the lens of contemporary Haitian art. The exhibition features 12 paintings created by Haitian-born, New Orleans–based painter Ulrick Jean-Pierre that portray striking historic figures influential events in a monumental scale alongside 20th-century Haitian art from the Spencer’s Mary Lou Vansant Hughes collection.
Exhibition images
Works of art

circa 1970

circa 1940–1976

Gerard Valcin (1925–1988)
circa 1970

circa 1970

Daniel Orelus (born 1946)
circa 1970

Penius Leriche (born 1940)
circa 1970

Lucien Pradel (born 1923)
circa 1950–1976

Jean Kolein
circa 1970

circa 1960–1985

circa 1950–1976

circa 1970

Jean Edy Morisset
circa 1970

Murat Brierre (1938–1988)
1966–1976

circa 1980

Jacksin Mesidor
circa 1970

1969

Edgar Brierre (born 1933)
circa 1960s

Georges Auguste (born 1933)
circa 1961

Gesner Armand (1936–2008, active 1950–2008)
circa 1970

1968–1976

1974
Events
October 17, 2018
Talk
10:30AM–12:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Dolph Simons Family Gallery, 316
October 17, 2018
Performance
1:30–3:00PM
Haskell Indian Nations University, Auditorium
October 18, 2018
Talk
5:30–8:30PM
309 Auditorium, Spencer Museum of Art, Sam and Connie Perkins Central Court, 317
October 20, 2018
Activity
1:00–4:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Dolph Simons Family Gallery, 316
October 21, 2018
Talk
2:00–3:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Dolph Simons Family Gallery, 316
October 23, 2018
Talk
12:00–1:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Long Ellis Gallery, 315, 316
October 25, 2018
Talk
10:15–11:00AM
Spencer Museum of Art, Dolph Simons Family Gallery, 316, Spencer Museum of Art, Estelle S. and Robert A. Long Ellis Foundation Gallery, 315