Marilene Phipps - Freddie Cabral
HAITI: Paintings by Marilene Phipps - GENESIS: Works by Freddie Cabral Through April 12
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About Marilene Phipps
Marilene Phipps is a painter and poet who was born and grew up in Haiti. She has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Bunting Institute, Wm. E. B. DuBois Institute and the Center for the Study of World Religions all at Harvard University, as well as from the New England Foundation for the Arts. A recipient of a Grolier poetry prize, her poetry volume Crossroads and Unholy Water won the l999 Crab Orchard Review. Other poems and articles have appeared in such publications as Ploughshares, Transition, Callalou and River Styx. Her short fiction has also won her accolades, including being listed in the Best American Short Stories 2001 and 2003. As a painter, she has exhibited widely and is represented in many private and public collections.
On Freddie Cabral
Freddie Cabral was born in l951 in the Dominican Republic where he studied art at the School of Fine Arts, Apec University (Santo Domingo), and architecture at the Universidad Autonoma de Santa Domingo. Subsequently, he studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, and at the Tecnica y Procedimientos del Barros en las Creaciones Artisticas, Taller Cultural, in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
He has taught at Apec University and the Catholic University of Santo Domingo, as well as operating his own school of fine arts in Santo Domingo. In l978, he received First Place at the Concurso Nacional, Casa de Espana, and in 1992 he was awarded the sculpture prize at the XVIII Bienal Nacional, held at the Museo de Art Moderno, both in Santo Domingo. He has also executed several commissions for public and private institutions and individuals. Cabral’s work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions since l974, and he has been featured in more than eight one-person exhibitions in Europe, the United States and throughout the Caribbean.