To Recognize a Pattern
On View:
Saturday, September 23, 2023 — Sunday, December 10, 2023
Works By:
Mark Fleuridor, Ashnide Jean-Baptiste, and Vickie Pierre
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On October 7, 1977, an exhibition titled Patterning and Decoration, curated by legendary art dealer Holly Solomon, opened at the Museum of the American Foundation for the Arts in Miami, Florida. Solomon, often associated with her support of the Pattern and Decoration movement, included several artists who would become synonymous with P&D such as Robert Kushner, Valerie Jaudon, and Miriam Schapiro as well as renowned artists whose works have been associated with the movement, including Howardena Pindell and Frank Stella. In a short essay written for that exhibition’s catalog, Amy Goldin offered, “This exhibition is not offered in the spirit of a lecture but as an invitation to a worldly or a cosmic dance. The artists remind you of the possibility of joy beyond reason, of solemnity beyond fear.”
Presented nearly fifty years later, To Recognize a Pattern brings together works by pivotal Pattern and Decoration artists, alongside work by three contemporary artists Mark Fleuridor, Ashnide Jean-Baptiste, and Vickie Pierre. While Fleuridor, Jean-Baptiste, and Pierre make work that evoke P&D, their rich and varied practices interweave other influences, many of which derive from living in South Florida. Raised in Miami, Fleuridor, incorporates patterns in his paintings and fiber-based works informed by the natural environment as well as family. Jean-Baptiste, a recent graduate of Florida International University, creates work that melds fashion, performance, identity, and abstract motifs. Born in New York, Pierre is a long time South Florida-based artist who, throughout her multi-media practice considers the legacies of colonialism, the Caribbean diaspora, and elements of childhood nostalgia.
Just as the organizers of the 1977 exhibition Patterning and Decoration, sought to document “the impulse towards decoration and the delight in pattern,” Mark Fleuridor, Ashnide Jean-Baptiste, and Vickie Pierre demonstrate their commitment to intricate pattern and form, intertwined with complex content. Their work resonates with the Pattern and Decoration movement, while embracing fresh and distinctive lines of inquiry.
We are grateful to Richard Levine for generously lending works to this exhibition. The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU receives ongoing support from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and the State of Florida.
Presented nearly fifty years later, To Recognize a Pattern brings together works by pivotal Pattern and Decoration artists, alongside work by three contemporary artists Mark Fleuridor, Ashnide Jean-Baptiste, and Vickie Pierre. While Fleuridor, Jean-Baptiste, and Pierre make work that evoke P&D, their rich and varied practices interweave other influences, many of which derive from living in South Florida. Raised in Miami, Fleuridor, incorporates patterns in his paintings and fiber-based works informed by the natural environment as well as family. Jean-Baptiste, a recent graduate of Florida International University, creates work that melds fashion, performance, identity, and abstract motifs. Born in New York, Pierre is a long time South Florida-based artist who, throughout her multi-media practice considers the legacies of colonialism, the Caribbean diaspora, and elements of childhood nostalgia.
Just as the organizers of the 1977 exhibition Patterning and Decoration, sought to document “the impulse towards decoration and the delight in pattern,” Mark Fleuridor, Ashnide Jean-Baptiste, and Vickie Pierre demonstrate their commitment to intricate pattern and form, intertwined with complex content. Their work resonates with the Pattern and Decoration movement, while embracing fresh and distinctive lines of inquiry.
We are grateful to Richard Levine for generously lending works to this exhibition. The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU receives ongoing support from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and the State of Florida.
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