the artist
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Paul Claude Gardère (b. 1944, Port-au-Prince, Haiti - d. 2011, New York City, NY) was a Haitian mixed-media artist who received artistic training at The Art Student’s League of New York (1960-63) and graduated from Cooper Union (BFA Painting, 1967) and Hunter College (MFA Painting, 1972). He holds the distinction of being the first Haitian Artist-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem (1989-90), was a resident at Fondation Claude Monet (1993) and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award Fellow (1998, Painting) among other notable achievements. During his 40+ year career, he worked and exhibited in both the United States and Haiti, but maintained his primary residence in Brooklyn, NY as a U.S. citizen, having been naturalized in 1991.
Exhibiting vast technical and stylistic range, Gardère’s painting and mixed-media discipline realized diverse works and series, all of which investigate racial and cultural relations (both conflict and syncretism) produced by Western imperialism and transnational migration in his native and adoptive countries. Drawing on history and symbology from Haitian, French, and U.S. American cultures, Gardère’s work unites the national narratives that informed his cultural experience and conveys the layered, often paradoxical multiplicities implicit in Afro-Caribbean diasporic identity and the post-colonial immigrant experience. His works reflect both his inner tensions as well as the dynamics of power and cultural identity at play in global populations reckoning with legacies of colonialism and acculturation to Eurocentric systems and values. During his lifetime, Paul Gardère received respected curatorial acclaim, particularly among academics and curators of Latin American and African diasporic art who recognized the thematic and symbolic references running through his work. His artwork belongs to numerous institutional and university permanent collections. Despite acclaim, his career largely sidestepped the for-profit gallery economy of the late 20th and early 21st centuries prior to his death. His sudden passing in 2011 at age 66 left behind a formidable collection of multi-media works, many never before seen by the public. He remains a well-respected, yet lesser known American artist of Haitian origin in the canons of global contemporary art. |
the estate
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the galleryPlease direct all inquiries for purchase and consignment of the artwork of Paul Gardère to the sales team led by Olivia Smith (Partner) at:
Magenta Plains 149 Canal Street New York, NY, 10002 (917) 388-2464 [email protected] open Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm |
the studio
- ARCHIVE ACCESS
Giving archive access to students and researchers for non-commercial, scholarly purpose is a core mission aim, and viable both in person and from afar. Thanks to extensive digitization efforts conducted over years, images of historical works, ephemera and document records are remotely available. In person visitors get to also enjoy the artist’s personal space, the studio’s growing library, including the artist’s own books, and examine the more than three-dozen works on view.
- CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ
The studio maintains all active art inventory, and is in the process of developing the broader database of all known created works by Paul Gardère. If you own a work by the artist, or want to confirm a work believed to be by the artist, please submit a catalogue raisonné artwork record. - CERTIFICATES of AUTHENTICITY
CoA’s are issued with new acquisition.. If you already own a work and are inquiring about a replacement CoA, please start by submitting an artwork record. Provenance info required. - COLLECTION MANAGEMENT
Proper long-term storage, location tracking, responsible transit, and general safeguarding of the inventory of the art archives is the core work of any artist’s archives. Digital management includes a database and networked duplication of physical files, constantly growing from the ever increasing addition of new projects and exhibition and condition photography. - EXHIBITION LOAN
While Magenta Plains gallery fields all commercial exhibitions and purchase/sales requests for Paul Gardère’s works, his studio facilitates the loan of works for exhibition, particularly series never before released to the public (ie, early historical works, archival research inquiries, and projects requiring documentary ephemera). The gallery and studio will coordinate on large exhibition projects. No matter who you contact, your request will be attended to.
- IMAGE LICENSING
Paul Gardère Studio owns the copyright for all artworks by the artists Paul Gardère and Marcia Green (Gardère) and the Studio additionally manages the Haitian documentary photography of Pierre Camille Gardère. Paul Gard¡ère’s father. Please email the studio for all image reproduction, publishing and licensing requests. Licensing fees may apply for commercial usage. - INTERVIEWS
I have done everything from indie internet radio podcasts to magazine interviews to multiple-session oral histories archived with the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. I know you can’t interview the artists, so all interview requests are received with grace and gratitude. Please include scheduling and project details in your email. - OTHER ARTISTS
All commercial and non-commercial exhibition or sales inquiries regarding the artwork of Marcia Green (Gardère) or any collected artist in the Gardère Family Collection may also be directed to the studio. - SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
I often guest lecture, sit on panels, conduct group tours, participate in symposiums, and gives private or public presentations on sliding scale in accordance with the estate's mission. Engaging in dialogue with the public brings the work not only to the public, but to life. - STUDIO VISITS
Available for curators, collectors, artists, scholars, and other interested parties, we regularly receive visitors by appointment. Interior photography is allowed but we ask that you refrain from posting to social media or share images of the front of the building for safety. - WRITING / AUTHORSHIP
To commission an article, essay or piece of writing, please request a minimum of 4 weeks prior to your deadline.. All writing is commissioned and credited unless associated with separate agreement or voluntarily supplied.
For any of the above and more, I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you for your interest.
