“Vibration of Colors”
In "Vibration of Colors," I delve into my daily life, cultural roots, and the national history that has shaped my identity as a Haitian artist. I seek to explore my immediate and peripheral environment through observations of everyday life. I aim to capture various human perspectives using the language of symbols, shapes, and colors. I invite spectators to interact with a dance of shapes and colors, which offer an abstract glimpse into everyday life. I think that art is a way to move people by giving them special insight into experiences of joy, pain, and revelation. Consequently, my main objective is to reconcile or mediate art’s possibilities and society’s realities.
Exhibitions
"Memory Work"
Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice; Brown University. February 15, 2019 - May 10, 2019.
"Memory Work is an exhibition of paintings by 2019 Heimark Artist-in-Residence, Renold Laurent, a Haitian artist based in Boston. Through these paintings he examines how different materials, from oil and acrylic paint to coffee grounds, enter into artistic dialogue with one another and make new meanings across space and time. By transforming materials that he finds in his local surroundings, he draws attention to how the artistic imagination can compensate for the economic limitations many people have in acquiring or buying material objects in the first place."
Exhibitions
"Material Consequences "
May 22 - July 27, 2018
Material Consequences is an exhibition that examines how different materials, from oil paint to coffee grounds, can enter into artistic dialogue with one another across time. This exhibition represents two phases in Laurent’s artistic work. In the first phase, he uses conventional materials to paint brilliant, colorful forms; in the second phase of black-and-white paintings, he uses nonconventional materials such as fabric remnants, coal and coffee grounds to demonstrate how the local materials sourced from his surroundings in his Haitian homeland can matter not only practically, but also artistically.
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