Kelly Sinnapah Mary is one of the artists in ‘Field Notes: Extracts’, in MoCADA, Brooklyn, until September 27, 2015.
Vagina, 2013.
About:
Born in 1981 in Guadeloupe, Kelly Sinnapah Mary works and lives in Guadeloupe.
She has a degree of visual art from the university of Toulouse. The artist develops an introspective work based on memories and objects of her childhood. She uses that world full of kindnes to deal with dramatic topics such as violence against women or domination relationships between men and women. But don’t be mistaken, Kelly Sinnapah Mary refuses any assimilation to a feminist act which would deprive her work of its universal dimension The frontier between creation and daily motion is so narrow that the artist is unable to define when she really started her work.
Vagina, 2013.
Vagina, 2014.
Vagina, 2014.
Yet, it is in 2010 that Kelly shows her first drawings on bedclothes at the Substitut Exhibition.
From then on, her work will be very successful and she will be awarded by many organizations and institutions. She wins the competition « Expression » organized by the Et Tant d’Art gallery. She is the winner of the invitation to projects « Free Hand, Year II » organized by the regional council of Guadeloupe and she gets a special honour from the jury of the Pool Art Fair, a contemporary art show that takes place in Guadeloupe and also in New-York.
Since then, you can see Kelly Sinnapah Mary’s work at the Pérez Art Museum in Miami beside other artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Victor Patricio Landaluze, Camille Pissarro, Wifredo Lam, Amelia Pélaez and Armando Reverón. (text Maëlle Gallery)