Daphne Arthur

Daphne Arthur (born in 1984, Caracas, Venezuela) is a contemporary artist, who currently lives and works in New York City. She is currently teaching at the Harlem School of Arts and the Ashcan Art Studio. Her artwork focuses on a combination of painting, sculpture, drawing, and uses smoke, paint, clay, and collage.

Biography and education

Daphne Arthur was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1984. Growing up with Trinidadian parents in Venezuela put strain and tension on her growing up.[1] When she was in high school, she saw herself as a visual artist through an epiphany while she was painting a mural.[2] In 2007, she went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to get her Bachelors of Fine Art and then to the Yale School of Art to get her Masters of Fine Arts in 2009. While getting her bachelors, she received residency in 2007 for the Ox-Bow School of Art and also received the American Academy of Rome, Affiliated Fellowship while she was in graduate school. After getting her BFA and MFA, Arthur participated in multiple group exhibitions and solo exhibitions. Over the years, she has been a curator, artist and designer, a teaching assistant, and a teacher. She is currently working at the Harlem School of the Arts assisting with high school and pre-college portfolio preparation, and at the Ashcan Art Studio in New York, as a painting and drawing teacher.

Teaching Experience

After receiving her MFA and BFA, Daphne Arthur has had multiple teaching experiences over the course of 2009 to present, they include:

  • 2016–Present, Harlem School of the Arts as a High School and Pre-College Portfolio Preparation
  • 2014–Present, Ashcan Art Studio in New York, New York as a Painting and Drawing Teacher
  • On February 25, 2016, at the City College of New York as a visiting artist.
  • On April 9, 2016, at the University of Massachusetts, Boston in the Harbor Gallery as a visiting artist.
  • 2013-2014, at the Art Plus Studio in New Haven, Connecticut as a painting teacher.
  • In November 2013, at SUNY Purchase College as a visiting artist.
  • During the Spring Semester of 2009, at the Yale School of Art as a teaching assistant for Robert Storr.

Artworks

Daphne Arthur features multiple of her artworks on her personal website, but some of her artworks include:

Paintings

AKA 2016 Ain't Killin' Anyone (2016)

Medium: Painting, 38"x21" - oil on canvas

Varied, broken tones. Dull, flat colors. Yellow, black AKA gun placed in the center of the photo. Pink flowers surrounding the gun, with black lines representing the stems and outlining the flowers.

This oil painting by Daphne Arthur is an auctioned art piece created for Trayron Martin, who was a junior at Dr. Michael M. Krop High School, who was fatally shot when he was visiting his father's fiancée and her son at their town home in Sanford, Florida. Arthur created this in response to news of the gun that killed the 17 year old being auctioned off, and planned on using the money for teen services.[3]

Daphne and partner, whose name is not explicitly said on the auction page, decided that painting a gun that has not been used to kill an innocent child should be auctioned and sold for a good cause.

Installations and Sculptures

El Juego del Tra Tra (2009)

Medium: Wall Piece, 53"x54.5"x31" - canvas, wax, latex, oil, paint, spray paint, wire mesh, fur, plastic, white cloth, nails

This art piece by Daphne Arthur stretches from the wall to the floor, there is a person stretching out or climbing out of the wall and reaching for the floor. The piece on the floor does not have a set shape. The overall color palette is overall flat colors and there are many different art mediums put together.

Daphne Arthur uses ideas of the human form's futility, impermanence, and ethereality as the embodiment of this art piece. According to the gallery of Young Latina Artists Exhibition, this art piece is meant to be "about life and its incapacity to exist without the consequence or existent of death and decay."

Smoke Drawings

Catching Butterflies (2017)

Medium: Painting, 51.75"x42" - smoke and pastel on paper

This smoke drawing by Daphne Arthur illuminates a feeling of apocalyptic desolation through this piece, as the scene depicted includes blurred image of the tree stretching from the outside inside the building and the broken glass on the window. The blur of the smoke creates a haunting and abandoned feeling.

Exhibitions

One Person Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions
  • 2018 - GLOBAL RADICAL RELEVANCES CONFERENCE, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
  • 2017 - BODIES Up For Grabs, Judson Memorial, NY I Remember, Curtiss Jacobs, NY
  • 2016 - Views from There, Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC Mixed Bag: An International Small Works Exhibition Contemporary Art, 59 Rivoli Gallery, Paris, France
  • 2014 -Young Latina Artists 19: Y, Qué?, Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, TX
  • 2013 - Land of Tomorrow, Louisville, KY Edge Art: Black-Latino(a) Artists, An Inter-Caribbean Dialogue, City College of New York, NY
  • 2012
    • Even Gravity Has Its Ups and Downs, Arena1, Santa Monica, CA
    • Go Tell It on the Mountain, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
    • Caribe Now, Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, Nathan Cummings Foundation New York, NY African-American Fine Art, Swann Galleries, New York, New York
  • 2011
    • Florence Biennale VIII, Florence, Italy
    • A Postcard Exhibition, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
    • Dialogo 365, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
    • Synesthesia LAB, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2009 - OutsideIn, Laviolabank - Gallery, NY
  • 2007 - “Will Happiness Find Me?”, Marvelli Gallery, NY
  • 2008 - Generations, South Side Art Center, Chicago, IL
  • 2005

Honors and Awards
  • 2009 - Al Held Affiliate Fellowship
  • 2007 - Lalla Anne Critz Zanzi Scholarship, School of Art, Institute of Chicago
  • 2005 - Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities Award

Publications

Illustrator

In the year of 2017, Daphne Arthur illustrated the graphic novel and designed the set in The Bench, A Homeless Love Story.

The Bench, A Homeless Love Story is written based on true stores and real people, by Robert Galinsky, who is a social activist, playwright, actor, poet, coach, etc. The Bench explores the stories of homeless characters dealing with the breakout of AIDS in the 1980s. Arthur contributes with his graphic novel adaption and designed sets in multiple of the theatre productions.[4]

Bibliography

Zevitas, Steven T. (2017). Studio Visit, Volume 40. Korea: The Open Studios Press. p. 12.

Roulette, Tod (2013). Edge Art: Black Latino(a) Artists, An Inter-Caribbean Dialogue. Roulette Fine Art. pp. 5–6.

gollark: I assume it's just to incentivize development of it and avoid apioformic lawsuits.
gollark: You're assuming committees act rationally.
gollark: I "like" how they refuse to commit to actually making any points.
gollark: Maybe they just form committees to do everything.
gollark: * conspiracy

References
  1. Roulette, Tod (2013). Edge Art: Black Latino(a) Artists, An Inter-caribbean Dialogue. Roulette Fine Art. pp. 5–7.
  2. Flores, Nancy (June 29, 2014). "Young Latina Artists exhibit features all-female group for first time". Statesman. Retrieved May 15, 2019.
  3. ""AKA 2016 Ain't Killin' Anyone", for Trayvon Martin - fine art by Daphne Arthur". www.charityauctionstoday.com. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  4. "THE BENCH, A HOMELESS LOVE STORY, reviewed by Neal Weaver". STAGE RAW - ARTS IN L.A. - SERVED FRESH. 2018-10-09. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
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