Stitched webs and gossamer threads are the spiritual skeletons that hold fiber artist’s Ketty Devieux’ fragile, at times disintegrating works together.
The abstract surrealism and trance like qualities of her meandering threadwork and nearly transparent materials stand, however, in balanced contrast to her other surprisingly durable elements – unstretched, unsized canvas, upholstery, curtain scraps - that lend her works their structural hints of permanence.
Read MoreKetty and I shared a studio in Kwai Hing, in an old factory building in a traditional working-class neighborhood in Hong Kong at a stage in our lives when we were both struggling to make sense of the experience of being outsiders in this vibrant and challenging city.
Read MoreA transcendental artist who now sees her brief in terms and lights of very different hues and her life's purpose unfolding on canvas more than in court rooms. Despairing and disillusioned by the legal milieu in her native Haiti, Ketty Guillaume Devieux, felt compelled to seek another path to inspire and elevate man to seek his inner worth.
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