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Firelei Báez, Immersion into Compounded Time: Mennello Museum of Art | Orlando, FL

Past exhibition
2 July - 1 September 2019
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Firelei Báez Study in Blue (We have come to stir the other world, to cleanse ourselves, to connect our living to the dead here), 2018 Acrylic and ink on canvas with painted tarp 8 x 20 in 20.3 x 50.8 cm
Firelei Báez
Study in Blue (We have come to stir the other world, to cleanse ourselves, to connect our living to the dead here), 2018
Acrylic and ink on canvas with painted tarp
8 x 20 in
20.3 x 50.8 cm

The Mennello Museum of American Art is pleased to present IMMERSION INTO COMPOUNDED TIME AND THE PAINTINGS OF FIRELEI BÁEZ. The exhibition will be on view at the Mennello Museum from June 7 through September 1, 2019, with an Opening Reception on June 7.

 

This exhibition will explore Firelei Báez’s investigations on the visibility and the construction of complex cultural identities within the Afro-Caribbean Diaspora and how these notions are perceived in today’s global world. Her large-scale and intricate portraits of influential individuals and mythical goddesses of Afro-Caribbean history create a contemporary narrative of a woman’s life, embracing the past, and staking her place in a universal future.

 

Báez is best known through her extraordinary paintings of lush landscaped-figures, intricately patterned tignons, and otherworldly bodies with striking eyes. Here, she considers the reality of ones current social and the historic construction of cultural self in America. These complex, intersectional bodies and symbols alongside large-scale portraits are painted in vibrant, swirling colors, which intermingle time and character. For Báez, “identity is malleable, negotiated,” and given strength by the female body and mythology of her being.

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Works
  • Firelei Báez Study in Blue (We have come to stir the other world, to cleanse ourselves, to connect our living to the dead here), 2018 Acrylic and ink on canvas with painted tarp 8 x 20 in 20.3 x 50.8 cm
    Firelei Báez
    Study in Blue (We have come to stir the other world, to cleanse ourselves, to connect our living to the dead here), 2018
    Acrylic and ink on canvas with painted tarp
    8 x 20 in
    20.3 x 50.8 cm
  • Firelei Báez Ooloi Ciguapa (mass pedigrees of masterpieces unsold), 2018 Gouache on paper 96 x 51 in 243.8 x 129.5 cm
    Firelei Báez
    Ooloi Ciguapa (mass pedigrees of masterpieces unsold), 2018
    Gouache on paper
    96 x 51 in
    243.8 x 129.5 cm
  • Firelei Báez Years of holding your tongue, 2018 Gouache on paper 93 1/2 x 51 in 237.5 x 129.5 cm
    Firelei Báez
    Years of holding your tongue, 2018
    Gouache on paper
    93 1/2 x 51 in
    237.5 x 129.5 cm
  • Firelei Báez I write love poems, too (The right to non-imperative clarities), 2018 Acrylic, ink, and chine-collé on deaccessioned book pages 96 x 224 in 243.8 x 569 cm
    Firelei Báez
    I write love poems, too (The right to non-imperative clarities), 2018
    Acrylic, ink, and chine-collé on deaccessioned book pages
    96 x 224 in
    243.8 x 569 cm
  • Firelei Báez How to slip out of your body quietly, 2018 Gouache on paper 70 x 118 in 177.8 x 299.7 cm
    Firelei Báez
    How to slip out of your body quietly, 2018
    Gouache on paper
    70 x 118 in
    177.8 x 299.7 cm
  • Firelei Báez Displacing all reduction, 2017 Acrylic on yupo paper 30 x 20 in 76.2 x 50.8 cm
    Firelei Báez
    Displacing all reduction, 2017
    Acrylic on yupo paper
    30 x 20 in
    76.2 x 50.8 cm
  • Firelei Báez What is here is, as much as this there, 2017 Acrylic on yupo paper 30 x 20 in 76.2 x 50.8 cm
    Firelei Báez
    What is here is, as much as this there, 2017
    Acrylic on yupo paper
    30 x 20 in
    76.2 x 50.8 cm
  • Firelei Báez Untitled, 2017 Acrylic and ink on de-accessioned book pages 16 x 12 in 40.6 x 30.5 cm
    Firelei Báez
    Untitled, 2017
    Acrylic and ink on de-accessioned book pages
    16 x 12 in
    40.6 x 30.5 cm
  • Firelei Báez Untitled, 2017 Acrylic and ink on de-accessioned book pages 16 x 12 in 40.6 x 30.5 cm
    Firelei Báez
    Untitled, 2017
    Acrylic and ink on de-accessioned book pages
    16 x 12 in
    40.6 x 30.5 cm
  • Firelei Báez Untitled, 2017 Acrylic and ink on de-accessioned book pages 16 x 12 in 40.6 x 30.5 cm
    Firelei Báez
    Untitled, 2017
    Acrylic and ink on de-accessioned book pages
    16 x 12 in
    40.6 x 30.5 cm
  • Firelei Báez Untitled, 2017 Acrylic and ink on de-accessioned book pages 16 x 12 in 40.6 x 30.5 cm
    Firelei Báez
    Untitled, 2017
    Acrylic and ink on de-accessioned book pages
    16 x 12 in
    40.6 x 30.5 cm
  • Firelei Báez Untitled, 2017 Acrylic and ink on de-accessioned book pages 16 x 12 in 40.6 x 30.5 cm
    Firelei Báez
    Untitled, 2017
    Acrylic and ink on de-accessioned book pages
    16 x 12 in
    40.6 x 30.5 cm
  • Firelei Báez for Marie-Louise Coidavid, exiled, keeper of order, Anacaona, 2017 Oil on canvas 84 x 60 in 213.4 x 152.4 cm
    Firelei Báez
    for Marie-Louise Coidavid, exiled, keeper of order, Anacaona, 2017
    Oil on canvas
    84 x 60 in
    213.4 x 152.4 cm
Installation Views
  • Fireleibaezmennellomuseum 1
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  • Fireleibaezmennellomuseum 3
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  • Fireleibaezmennellomuseum 12
  • Fireleibaezmennellomuseum 15
Press
  • “Immersion into Compounded Time and the Paintings of Firelei Báez” , Installation view, Mennello Museum, 2019

    FIRELEI BÁEZ AT THE MENNELLO MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART

    Jean Marie Carey, Arte Fuse, July 2, 2019

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