#fireleibaez

[jamaicaplainjane]

“To breathe full and free: a declaration, a revisioning, a correction” by Firelei Baez

[oiseauxlicht]

Firelei Báez

Fragments of:

Man Without a Country (aka anthropophagist wading in the Artibonite River)

2014–15

[mtaartsdesign]

For #WomensHistoryMonth we’re highlighting Firelei Báez’s “Ciguapa Antellana, me llamo sueño de la madrugada. (who more sci-fi than us)” (2018) at the 163 St-Amsterdam Ave (C) station, where the larger than life ciguapas (powerful convention-breaking feminine figures from Dominican folklore) immersed in tropical greenery intertwined with multicultural healing imagery, join passengers on the daily commute. Báez reworks diasporic history in her explorations of feminine mythology and artifacts overlaid onto large-scale maps and documents in her new exhibition at James Cohan Gallery, open through April 25th.

[sullybonnelly]

I’m proud to be Dominican born specially when I can admire the fantastic work of a Dominican woman like @fireleibaez #NYC @jamescohangallery until June 16 #fireleibaez #art #contemporaryart #womanartist #mundosully https://www.instagram.com/p/ByYe8JUHkNr/?igshid=k3s1c7fmk73n

[artbookdap]

“Adjusting the Moon (The right to non-imperative clarities): Waxing” (2019–20) is from @fireleibaez⁠ 'to breathe full and free,' launching ⁠tomorrow, Saturday, December 17 at 3PM at @jamescohangallery⁠ ⁠ In her interview with the artist, @thelmagolden asks Báez how she navigates daily life. Báez responds: "Mostly just with curiosity. Knowing that I don't know certain kinds of things has been the main anchor. So, starting with a presumption that I am not the center and that I don't know, how do I then make sense of that? How do I navigate in a way that puts me in flow with the world around me?"⁠⁠ ⁠ Edited by @dlouisnorr ⁠ Designed by @mikomcginty ⁠ Published by @gregoryrmiller ⁠ Text by @carlaacevedoyates @markgodfrey1973 & @ellerustle Interviews by @thelmagolden & @curator_on_the_run ⁠ ⁠ More info via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #fireleibaez #fireleibaezbook #fireleibaeztobreathefullandfree #fireleibaezadjustingthemoon #adjustingthemoon⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CmPh5pIJZKg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[noerandclaire]

🌊Look of the day! Rocking the Issa-Top from our new Fall-21 collection. I Decided to go check out the @fireleibaez exhibit, She is a Haitian-Dominican artist 🇭🇹🇩🇴 featuring her sculpture art of the Sans-Souci Palace, Haïti at the @icaboston Watershed. ❥It was a great experience seeing her artwork and since I am Haitian myself, it was wonderful to see art from my own people and take it in. A complete Vlog of the exhibit will be coming soon so stay tuned! 😁 #icaboston #icawatershed #icabostonwatershed #fireleibaez #fireleibáez #haitianartists #haitiandesigner #dominicanartists #dominicanart #haitianart #fashion #waverunner #waverunner700 #yezzyboost700 #ncdrip #haiti #sanssoucipalace #caribbeanart #womenafashion #fashionstyle #fashion #art #noerandclaire #streetstyle #streetwear #streetfashion #stylegram #ica #icabostonexhibition #lookoftheday #ootd (at ICA Watershed) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTX2AyAFU3v/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ilexproject]

IT is, what it IS...until IT is NOT Vessel of Genealogies, 2016 -Firelei Báez "She is a high spirit like a Haitian Loa. Báez creates her own divine being signifying a wide range of imagery that attests to the artist's own hybrid racial background." • • • • • • • • #baez #dpu #depauluniversity #depaul #artmuseum #art #bighair #naturalhair #haitian #race #photography #amateurphotography #chicago #goodvibesonly #positivevibes #fireleibaez - #regrann @i_lex_project https://www.instagram.com/p/B92t1ZhhNfF/?igshid=14hu1rgg35ur5

[shokolalife]

#jamescohan #gallery #fireleibaez #154artfair #lowereastside When I entered the space, the burnt incense brought me a lot of memories n sensations. Temple? India? Sedona? Prayer? Meditation? Trip? Funeral? or Someone’s room? Firelei Baez led participants to her beautiful blue world with priestess of Caribbean ocean. She said she was influenced by Japanese arts like Ukiyoe, particularly her intricate pairings 🏯🌸🎨 ジェームズコーハン・ギャラリーを訪れた1-54アートフェア初日。中華街ど真ん中、あいにくの雨天、寒い！アーティストのフィレレイ・バエズはドミニカ出身🇩🇴NY在住。カリブ海の黒人の歴史とアイデンティティを模る青い空間とたき込められたお香は、記憶を刺激する。何層にも重ねる浮世絵の影響を受けたと。カリブ海地域に来たことはありますか？と訊かれた。 (James Cohan Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxU2JL-gaZz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=130y4zz3qjku2

[bellus-spiritus]

@fireleibaez #FireleiBaez @jamescohangallery "A Drexcyen Chronocommons (To win the war you fought it sideways)," an exhibition of new work by #FireleiBáez. Acknowledging the reciprocal nature of migration as a non-linear course of movement, Báez creates sites of connectivity, where overlapping histories and modes of understanding coexist. For "A Drexcyen Chronocommons (To win the war you fought it sideways)," the artist has created an immersive installation in the main gallery that spreads into the reception area. The space is cocooned in hand-perforated blue tarp—often used for temporary shelter, and thus a symbol of both disaster and refuge—casting light onto material patterned with black diasporic symbols of nurturing and resistance. Overhead is a geo-specific map of the stars as they appeared in the night sky at the onset of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). A successful uprising led by self-liberated enslaved people against the French colonial government in Saint-Domingue, the Haitian Revolution was an early precursor to abolition movements internationally and had an indelible—if often unacknowledged—impact on the ideological and geopolitical landscape of the 19th century world. The installation’s oceanic quality suggests the broader history of black diaspora and the Middle Passage, in relationship to Glissant’s theory of the ocean as a connector and a repository of physical memory. . . Detail: FIRELEI BÁEZ, "A Drexcyen chronocommons (To win the war you fought it sideways)," 2019. Two paintings, hand-painted wooden frame, perforated tarp, printed mesh, handmade paper over found objects, plants, books, Oman incense, palo santo. . . . . #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #installation #drexcyen #drexciya #jamescohangallery #lowereastside #artcollector #artadvisor #joakimvonditmar (at James Cohan Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw5rdD7lZf5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=b7bse29dw7ee

[thisisawkwardnyc]

Firelei Báez: Bloodlines . . #andywarholmuseum #art #pittsburgh #igpittsburgh #fireleibaez (at The Andy Warhol Museum)

[queenofthehiiiiighway]

Firelei Baez

TO SEE BEYOND IT AND TO ACCESS THE PLACES THAT WE KNOW LIE OUTSIDE ITS WALLS

2015 Gouache and ink on paper

[mtaartsdesign]

We’re Honored!  We are thrilled and proud that Americans for the Arts Public Art Network has named new #MTAArts projects as among the 50 best public art produced in the country! Congratulations to the artists on their beautiful work: 

Firelei Baez for “Ciguapa Antellana, me llamo sueño de la madrugada. (who more sci-fi than us)” (2018), Glass mosaic fabricated by Mayer of Munich, at 163 Street-Amsterdam Av (C)

Ann Hamilton for “CHORUS” (2018), marble mosaic fabricated by Mayer of Munich, at WTC Cortlandt Street (1)

Rico Gatson for “Beacons” (2018), glass mosaic fabricated Miotto Mosaics, at 167th Street (B/D)

Four laminated glass projects on the Astoria N/W line:

Diane Carr for “Outlook” (2018), laminated glass fabricated by Glasmaleri Peters, at Broadway

Sarah Morris for “Hellion Equilibrium” (2018), laminated glass fabricated by Glassworks, at 39 Av-Dutch Kills

Maureen McQuillan for “Crystal Blue Persuasion” (2018), laminated glass fabricated by Depp Glass, at 36th Avenue

Stephen Westfall for “Perasma I & II; Dappleganger” (2018), laminated glass fabricated by Depp Glass, at 30th Avenue

[trascapades]

🔥🎨#ArtIsAWeapon

#Artist Firelei Báez, Fire wood pretending to be fire, 2013.

Reposted from @studiomuseum Start off your week by exploring "Paint Over, Paint Under," a #LessonPlan inspired by the work of Firelei Báez (@fireleibaez)! Learn how to create a layered watercolor portrait using wet-on-wet and drybrush techniques. 🎨

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Firelei Báez creates work that focuses on the experiences of Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latina women. Her practice is deeply rooted in historical research and committed to redefining dominate historical narratives. She focuses on cultural ambiguity within diasporic communities, strategies for surviving cultural invasion, and redefining identity. Báez's "Fire wood pretending to be fire" is an acrylic and gouache painting on paper. It is made up of a pair of eyes that confront the viewer, surrounded by layers of overlapping colors that create the figure's ambiguous facial features. ⠀

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Download the #LessonPlan at the link in bio. ⠀

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Firelei Báez, Fire wood pretending to be fire, 2013. Acrylic and gouache on yupo paper, 27 ¾ × 20 in. The Studio Museum in Harlem; promised gift of Carol Sutton Lewis PG.2014.4.5 Photo: Zalika Azim

#PaintOverPaintUnder #ArtLesson #StudioMuseumofHarlem #FireleiBáez #watercolor #AfroLatinaArtists

#TraScapades #BlackGirlArtGeeks

[artbookdap]

“Chrono-DREAMer” (2019) is from @fireleibaez⁠ 'to breathe full and free,' the first comprehensive monograph on the artist, launching tomorrow, Saturday, December 17 at 3PM at @jamescohangallery ⁠ ⁠ In his essay on 'The Map Painting,' Mark Godfrey quotes the artist: "I grew up hearing stories of Lilith-like wild women from the forest, Ciguapas, told to me as a warning: you can’t be too wild, too much of nature, don’t be too independent. Everything that’s inscribed onto that figure becomes the antithesis of ideal femininity. And then as a kid I’d think, 'There’s so much freedom in that, why would I not want to be that? Why would I not want to be untraceable and fearless?'"⁠ ⁠ Edited by @dlouisnorr ⁠ Designed by @mikomcginty ⁠ Published by @gregoryrmiller ⁠ ⁠Text by @carlaacevedoyates @markgodfrey1973 & @ellerustle Interviews by @thelmagolden & @curator_on_the_run ⁠ ⁠ More info via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #fireleibaez #fireleibaezbook #fireleibaeztobreathefullandfree #fireleibaezchronodreamer #chronodreamer https://www.instagram.com/p/CmPTULApxCI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[pafacareers]

WOMAN ARTIST OF THE DAY

Firelei Baez

Firelei Báez was born in Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic and lives and works in New York City. She makes intricate works on paper and canvas as well as large scale sculpture.

[janmaruhn]

#fireleibaez #berlinbiennale #akademiederkünste (hier: Akademie der Künste - Hanseatenweg) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm93Gv5hjeP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=112emneuy5tho