Firelei Báez
Born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, 1981
"Firelei’s masterful painting and her articulation of the actual and imagined history of Haiti made an indelible impression on me. Báez, an artist of color, clearly also feels completely free to choose to make such references in her work."
—Komal Shah
Firelei Báez
For Améthyste and Athénaïre (Exiled Muses Beyond Jean Luc Nancy’s Canon), Anacaonas, 2018
Oil on canvas over wood panel, with hand-painted wood frames
Overall 120 × 252 in. (304.8 × 640.1 cm)
Installation view, The Modern Window: Firelei Báez, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 17, 2018–November 1, 2019.
© Firelei Báez; courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York
Photo by John Wronn
Firelei Báez
temporally palimpsestive (just adjacent to air), 2019
Acrylic and oil on printed canvas
90 × 114 1/2 in. (228.6 × 290.8 cm)
© Firelei Báez; courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York