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The Ties that Bind: Haiti, the United States, and the Art of Ulrick Jean-Pierre in Comparative Perspective

The Ties that Bind: Haiti, the United States, and the Art of Ulrick Jean-Pierre in Comparative Perspective

Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator

September 8, 2018–January 6, 2019

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

André Pierre (1914–2005, active 1940s–2004), The Horseman

Gervais Emmanuel Ducasse (1903–1988), Parade

Gerard Valcin (1925–1988), Konbit

André Pierre (1914–2005, active 1940s–2004), Les Trois Esprits d'Nago (The Three Spirits of Nago)

angel with a trumpet

Daniel Orelus (born 1946), People Partying

Penius Leriche (born 1940), Woman Leading a Blind Man

Bernard Séjourné (1947–1994), Asefi (enough daughters)

Bernard Séjourné (1947–1994), Erzuline

Lucien Pradel (born 1923), mother nursing child, boy on a chair inside a hut

Jean Kolein, Beauty Shop

Salnave Philippe-Auguste (1908–1989, active 1958–1989), Colère (Anger)

Préfête Duffaut (1923–2012, active 1946–2012), mountainous cityscape with criss-crossing roads

Pierre Joseph-Valcin (1925–2000, active 1960s–2000), Birds of a Feather

Adam Leontus (1923–1986, active 1940s–1986), Tropical Bird

Descourcel Gourgue (born 1927), Three Birds in a Tree

Descourcel Gourgue (born 1927), Two Birds in a Tree with Three Butterflies

Jean Edy Morisset, Vodou Ceremony

Murat Brierre (1938–1988), Crucifix

Rigaud S. Benoît (1911–1986); Antonio Joseph (1921–2016, active 1944–2016), untitled

Jacksin Mesidor, Arche de Noé (Noah's Ark)

Jasmin Joseph (1923–2005, active 1940s–2005), Paradise

Edgar Brierre (born 1933), Three Angels with Black Jesus

Ulrick Jean-Pierre (born 1955), Céremonie du Bois Caïman II (Revolution of Saint-Domingue, Haiti, 1791)

Ulrick Jean-Pierre (born 1955), Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Ulrick Jean-Pierre (born 1955), Toussaint Louverture (Issuing the First Constitution of Saint-Domingue [Haiti], 1801)

Ulrick Jean-Pierre (born 1955), Marie-Jeanne Lamartinierre (Haitian Revolution, 1802)

Ulrick Jean-Pierre (born 1955), Queen Anacaona I (Native Haitian)

Ulrick Jean-Pierre (born 1955), Map of Haitia-Louisiana Migrations

Ulrick Jean-Pierre (born 1955), Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable

Ulrick Jean-Pierre (born 1955), John James Audubon

Ulrick Jean-Pierre (born 1955), Marie Laveau

Ulrick Jean-Pierre (born 1955), Crucified Liberty

Ulrick Jean-Pierre (born 1955), Institutionalized Symbolism

Ulrick Jean-Pierre (born 1955), Exchange of Culture (Between Indians and African Maroons)

Georges Auguste (born 1933), untitled

Gesner Armand (1936–2008, active 1950–2008), Doves

Vierge Pierre (born 1945), Market Day

Pierre Joseph-Valcin (1925–2000, active 1960s–2000), Ladies Under a Tree Picking and Packing Fruit

Paul Nemours (born 1946), Rooster

Events

October 20, 2018

Activity

Migration Washi Tape Collage

1:00–4:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Dolph Simons Family Gallery, 316

October 21, 2018

Talk

Asefi (enough daughters)

2:00–3:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Dolph Simons Family Gallery, 316

October 25, 2018

Talk

Women as Liberty and Women as Leaders in Haitian Art

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

October 17, 2018

Talk

Art as Social History: Ulrick Jean-Pierre in conversation with co-curators Cécile Accilien and Casey Mesick Braun

10:30AM–12:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Dolph Simons Family Gallery, 316

October 17, 2018

Performance

Buffalo Boy's Resistance is Futile

1:30–3:00PM

Haskell Indian Nations University, Auditorium

October 23, 2018

Talk

Haiti, New Orleans, and the Ties that Bind

12:00–1:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Long Ellis Gallery, 315, 316

September 7, 2018

Social

Friends of the Art Museum Fall Party

5:00–7:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art

October 18, 2018

Talk

Krik? Krak! Art, History, Politics & Creativity: A Conversation with Ulrick Jean-Pierre, Randal Maurice Jelks, and Cassandra Mesick Braun

5:30–8:30PM

309 Auditorium, Spencer Museum of Art, Sam and Connie Perkins Central Court, 317

October 28, 2018

Talk

The Ties that Bind

2:00–3:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art

September 7, 2018

Talk

Q&A with Edwidge Danticat

10:30–11:30AM

Spencer Museum of Art

Resources

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