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The Divine Feminine Interventions Of Vickie Pierre

On View Through Sept. 5 At Boca Museum Of Art

Like the town crier in a fractured fairy tale, Be My by long strands of glittering Goddess beads. The color sense of melancholy and longing in my work, it comes
Herald of What’s to Come is the title of Vickie Pierre’s backdrops are reminiscent of French toile fabrics. Batons from the otherworldly state I put myself in when I am
premiere solo museum show at the Boca Raton Museum appear, as sails that have lost their wind. “It feels like creating,” adds Pierre.
of Art. Grounded in the Arts and Crafts movement, her when you are watching something decay, but know that Her exhibition includes, for the first time seen
installations have a storybook feel. A fractured fairytale something better will take its place,” says Pierre. altogether, Pierre’s assemblages and freestanding
is, after all, a new twist on an old story, reimagined “I’ve been collecting these Avon perfume bottles sculpture that highlight her lyrical brilliance.
and restructured for a contemporary sensibility. Just for some time, using them as my muses. They’ve been “This exhibition of Pierre’s assemblages is both a
as fractured fairytales can be more subversive than the deconstructed because I take their heads and torsos off. memorial for what has passed and a desire for what is
traditional fables, the playfulness and whimsical flourishes It’s a play on the idea of the princess – who gets to be to come,” said Irvin Lippman, the executive director of
of Pierre’s assemblages are underscored by her pull the princess?” the museum. “Exploring how people can structure their
towards the beautifully grotesque. In this new exhibition, Pierre’s creative process is informed and inspired identity, Pierre pays homage to the French and larger
her works cast a feminine deity spell within the museum by memory, fantasy, surrealism, popular culture and the European architectural design that influenced Haitian
gallery. In the installation she created in 2020, titled Black decorative and ornamental arts. She is best known for her culture while also subverting it. Her vignettes deal with
Flowers Blossom (Hanging Tree), the artist honors the wall installations that blend elements of her Caribbean
souls of people lost to racial injustice, including George heritage with contemporary culture. “There is always a The Divine Feminine Interventions on page 23
Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the many
others. The exhibition was curated by Kelli Bodle, the
assistant curator of the museum, and is on view until Sept. 7572 Regency Lake Drive, 102
5. Pierre has also been commissioned to create two murals
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“These works proclaim that, while we can acknowledge
the dark, painful parts of our past, at the same time we can
also express hope and light for the future,” says the Miami-
based artist Pierre. Her artworks cling to the romanticized,
ornate European-based home décor of her childhood home
in Brooklyn. The interior design hearkened back to France
as the mother country of Haiti, but one that never really
was maternal. “It’s not my history, and isn’t even really
my parents’ history. All of those decorative elements I
remember growing up with, the European flourishes,
rococo, and Victorian, were not even part of their lives
when they were in Haiti. That’s the push and pull of it. It’s
a fantasy, but it’s a beautiful lie,” says Pierre. “Visually,
it’s the best eye candy ever.”
She uses vintage Avon perfume bottles shaped like
idealized women in period skirts (but removes the tops of
the bottles that are shaped like women’s heads and torsos); Imagine what you can get on your home!
flaxen hair from dolls; galleon ships to represent the slave
trade; bracelets, cuffs and jewelry – all interconnected
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