EDOUARD DUVAL-CARRIÉ

Artwork by Bakehouse board member and nationally recognized artist, Edouard Duval-Carrié. Proceeds will benefit the Bakehouse studio subsidy fund.

About the Artwork
In olden days many nations in Africa were mostly of tribal appartenance. Set markers for this were the tribal markings that were incised on mostly their faces which indicated to which tribes they belonged . Crossing over to the Americas such markers were lost with time and in this group of engraving to which this piece belongs I am reinterpreting these facial markers with new combinations of markers which are more fanciful than realistic .Their status in the Americas was that of slaves  ie. any other markings became obsolete as their skin color became the only marker that was needed.

About the Artist
Edouard Duval-Carrié was born in Port-au-Prince. His family emigrated to Puerto Rico while he was a child during the François Duvalier regime. Duval-Carrié studied at the Université de Montréal and McGill University in Canada before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Loyola College, Montréal in 1978. He later attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, from 1988 to 1989. He resided in France for many years and currently lives in Miami, Florida. Duval-Carrié resides among Miami's substantial Haitian immigrant population and maintains cultural ties to his homeland. His works have been exhibited in Europe and the Americas.