Sydney Rose Maubert
Sydney Rose Maubert (b. 1996) is an interdisciplinary artist and architect. Her research and art practice explore racial-sexual perception in the built environment, focusing on the American South and the Caribbean. Informed by Haitian-Cuban heritage, her research and practice examine homemaking and draw upon the latent architectural dimension of daily life.
Her work transcends the boundaries of scholarship, fine art, and installation. The abstraction of figure and space provides a way to attribute specific authorship to the built environment. Exploring themes of identity and home, the work typically yields a one-to-one installation to house the painted works. Using painting as a tool for architecture, her interdisciplinary practice examines domesticity and cultural geography. Much of her work is grounded in her experiences growing up in Miami, witnessing the stark contrast between vibrant material culture and urban difference.
Image: Jookin'
“This piece documents a Black vernacular dance style from Miami called "jookin'," which is part of Miami Bass music. The Black and brown communities in Miami are largely being displaced due to increasing cost of living and climate gentrification. Much of our culture is not celebrated in public discourse so residents turn to literary and digital archives to stitch and platform our history. I was interested in capturing the filmic motion of the fabric like a traditional painting. This piece was exhibited at TenBerke Architects through their Artist Program.”
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Image above: How to Take Home With You. Oil on canvas.
“Inspired by the culture of Homestead, through a series of large-scale paintings, I document daily life through portraits of family, community, joy, and grief through exploring material culture. This piece was exhibited at TenBerke Architects through their Artist Program.”
Image below: Surrender. Mixed media.
“Surrender is a mixed media tapestry that highlights personal family histories and memories in Homestead, FL, collectively representing my community in Homestead, FL-- the lens through which I explore loss of home, culture and place and invokes conversations surrounding gentrification and displacement. This is a self portrait painted of myself in my apartment, where I stitch my Cuban grandmother's wrought iron gate into my window. I also sew fabrics into the piece to reflect the materiality of the fabrics in her home. This piece was exhibited at TenBerke Architects through their Artist Program.”
