The Architecture, Design, and Art Library proudly presents the work of featured artist ‘22-23 Roslyn M. Dupré. Her exhibit, The Persistence of Words, will be on view until May 2023. 

Statement 
I am a multidisciplinary artist who works with basic materials and traditional craftsmanship to fashion woven, welded or wooden constructions. My materials vary with each project and my methods incorporate domestic handicrafts like hand-weaving, embroidery and knitting with fine art fabrication and foundry work. I am also a Creole woman of color from New Orleans who has lived in Texas for 17 years. Outside of my place of origin—and I am usually outside my place of origin—I am ambiguously other and my work is my response. Central to this work is the personal history of each material I use as my objects do not pretend to be without a past. With mixed media works that include unuseful tools, unwearable clothes, and unfamiliar furnishings, I attempt to conjure a world where superstition and religion, race and gender, and the mystical and the laborious are the foundation stones upon which the home is built. Throughout I allude to the writers of the American South and to a story of identity, unique to time and place. I seek to explore dark themes of inhumanity, blend them with mysticism, and open the door to redemption. 

Bio
Roslyn M. Dupré is a New Orleans native and Houston resident of 17 years. In her sculpture and multidisciplinary practice, Dupré works with natural materials and traditional craftsmanship to fashion woven, welded, or wooden constructions. Her projects vary with concept and her methods often incorporate domestic handicrafts like hand-weaving, embroidery and knitting with fine art fabrication and foundry work. Dupré recently completed the Glassell Studio School Block programs XX and XXI and the Glassell/MFAH Certificate of Achievement in Sculpture. She is currently in the MFA program in Sculpture at the University of Houston. Recent solo shows include “Southern Gothic” in the Box 13 Back Gallery (2022) and “Savage Bayou” at the Bosque Gallery at LoneStar College (2022).