Roslyn Dupré is a bricoleur and mixed-media artist who blends humble materials and craft to fashion sewn papers and woven constructions. A former geoscientist and editor, she is a maker of objects, an observer, and a commentator. Much of her work is abstracted commentary, with constructed objects capturing her reflections of the world around her. Her objects sometimes embody expressions of memory, reinterpreted in the context of new realities and greater experience. Others are more distant and less immediately narrative but are careful compositions of action and material, form and response. The historical significance of the materials she uses is integral to her work, as each object carries the weight of its past and does not pretend to exist without it.
Dupré earned an MFA in the Sculpture Department from the Katherine G. McGovern School of Art, University of Houston. Recent solo shows have included The daily devotional at Lawndale, which was accompanied by Rabea Ballin’s thoughtful essay, and On US at LRT Gallery. Her work was also recently included in the Texas Biennial 2024’s The Last Sky: Thermals and Thresholds at Sawyer Yards and is on display at Hobby Airport as part of the City of Houston’s Civic Art Collection.
To learn more about Roslyn Dupré, visit https://www.roslyndupre.com/.
Roslyn’s residency is generously sponsored in part by Phyllis Childress.
