Fabiola Jean-Louis

portrait painting style photo of a woman wearing an elizabethan ruff and holding a baby
Tuesday, Apr 13 2021, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Virtual Event
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VALS—Spring 2021
Tuesday, Apr 13 2021 7:00 PM Tuesday, Apr 13 2021 8:00 PM America/New_York Fabiola Jean-Louis OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Born in Port au Prince, Haiti, Brooklyn-based Fabiola Jean-Louis uses ‘painterly’ photography as a vehicle for her love of Afro-futurism, science/ science fiction, pre and post-industrial eras, elves, fairies, and history and folklore. Fabiola Jean-Louis will speak at this weeks Visual Arts Lecture Series. Virtual Event Bennington College

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Born in Port au Prince, Haiti, Brooklyn-based Fabiola Jean-Louis uses ‘painterly’ photography as a vehicle for her love of Afro-futurism, science/science fiction, pre and post-industrial eras, elves, fairies, and history and folklore. Her current, and ongoing series, Rewriting History, a three-part series consisting of period paper gowns, photographs, and Polaroids opened as a solo exhibition at Smithsonian affiliates, DuSable Museum of African American History, Alan Avery Art Company, and Andrew Freedman Home to wide critical acclaim. She has participated in residencies at the Museum of Art and Design (MAD), New York City, and in September 2019, LUX Museum, San Diego. Fabiola was recently invited to participate in a BRIC Media group exhibition, Bordering the Imaginary: Art from the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and their Diasporas. Her work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, Modern Luxury, Artnet News, Art Critical, Hyperallergic, Atlanta Art Constitution, Chicago Sun Times, The Fashion Journal, The Haitian Times, and more.

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