Sydney Rose Maubert is an artist, architect, and professor. She uses painting as a tool for architectural storytelling. She holds degrees in architecture from Yale University and the University of Miami, with double minors in writing and art. Currently, Sydney Rose is the inaugural fellow at Cornell's Strauch Fellowship.
About
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Sydney Rose Maubert is an artist, architect and professor. She uses painting as a tool for architectural storytelling. Her research interests are architecture, geography, and cultural production in the Caribbean and American South. The work is largely shaped by black studies, gender studies, decolonial studies, history and cultural geography. Informed by her Haitian- Cuban heritage, her practice explores racial- sexual perception in the built environment.
She holds degrees in architecture from Yale University and the University of Miami, with double minors in writing and art. She has received several awards including the Cornell Council for the Arts Award, Yale Moulton Andros Award, University of Miami Alpha Rho Chi Award. She is the founder of Sydney R. Maubert LLC., her art and mural practice. Currently, Sydney Rose is the inaugural fellow at Cornell's Strauch Fellowship, where she will be teaching and producing research (Fall 2022- ongoing). She sits on the board for the Center for Architecture's Scholarship Committee. She has assisted teaching courses at Yale University, Morgan State University, City College of New York and the University of Miami. She is the June 2023 Artist in Residence at the Everglades (AIRIE). |
Photo: Jael Labrie
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Exhibitions
on viewSydney Rose Maubert: Queen of the Swamp — The Saltwater Railroad
This project, "Queen of the Swamp", is an acknowledgment of Miami's Bahamian history and its vital ties to a larger cultural geography of Southern and Indigenous aesthetics. It draws upon Miami's history of Bahamian laborers' construction of Miami's infrastructure on porous rock, and their present descendants' influence on Miami Bass culture. In many ways, Miami's Black and Indigenous communities are the instigators of Miami's original architecture, infrastructure, and present culture. This work is interested in identifying a Miami architectural vernacular and uses its aesthetics as a possible solution to our swampland’s troubled reputation as being uninhabitable. It experiments with aesthetics of impropriety as a solution.
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closedSydney Rose Maubert: Hymns From a Burning House — Haitian Dispossession
I wish I could testify that I came to know my heritage because of my easy feeling of belonging. But it was a foreign intimacy that let me know how much heritage mattered. As I went out into the world, I was troubled by the dispossessive force of disruptive stories, when my innocent questions were confronted with tales of poisons, zombies, and capture; of unreliable actors and insurgency; of riches, pearls, and unfounded debts. I was troubled and fascinated by these stories, which blurred the boundaries of history and humor, and found myself struggling to untether myself from what might be a great folktale or might be a vital lineage. I longed for the fleeting feeling of freedom I knew as a child, when my father would tell me stories of my heritage, of Haitian heroes and of the Haitian Revolution. It broke my heart as I grew older, to hear my father say over and over, "Did you see Haiti is on fire again?" I'd witness distorted images of a church on fire, women looking dazed in the street, and these terribly beautiful photos of bedrooms, couples tethered to each other in embrace. I hesitate to represent these images, though I feel the need to call attention to the ease with which we make a spectacle of Haitian suffering — and to illuminate how Haitian women's brilliant experiments with homemaking, intimacy, and the performance of daily life are often overlooked.
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closedSydney Rose Maubert: Intimacies of the Walls
September 19–October 8, 2022
Cornell East Sibley Exhibition Hallway, East Sibley Hall Exhibition Details This exhibition seeks to examine the conditions that precipitated the disappearance of Miami's shotgun house. Tracing the historiography of the shotgun house from its origins in pre-colonial West Africa to its most recent mutation in 1939 Miami’s Liberty Square housing, a 243 one- to two-story unit project, I chart the ways that the shotgun horizontally expanded urban environments, mediated processes of racial perception and tension in the United States, prompted by the end of Reconstruction, mass migrations, and immigrations.
This event is showcasing the works of Sydney Rose Maubert, related to her seminar course Intimacies of the Walls. It seeks to examine the way that race altered the cityscape, and the ways that racial conceptions informed its informal architecture and economies. It views Miami through a black femme lens. |
News
SPEAKING
Remembering Home_Critical Fabulation and Imaginations of___
ARTIST TALK
sTILL HERE: GENERATIONS OF BLACK MIAMI ARTMAKING |
publicationLog 57: black is... black ain't
SPEAKING
Spring 2022 BSA+GSAPP One-Day Symposium |
artist residencyAIRIE Artist in Residency in the Everglades June 2023 Fellow
eth zurich seven questions curatorial |
teaching fellowshipCornell Strauch Fellow 2022- 2024
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selected work 2016- 2022
Intimacies of the Walls: Homeplace and refusalsCornell AAP
Photography: Anson Wigner Funding: Cornell College of Architecture 2022 |
Cartographies of BraidingAdvanced Studio,
Faculty: Abeer Seikaly 2022 |
Haitian- Cuban DwapoAdvanced Studio
Faculty: Tatiana Bilbao 2021 |
Forgotten Black MeccaArchitecture Elective,
Faculty: Justin G. Moore 2021 |
WUYÁMUSH MEMORIAL AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY LABAdvanced Studio,
Faculty: Tod Williams, Billie Tsien and Andrew Benner 2020 |
Data Collection, Blackness and the Almighty DollarArchitecture Elective,
Faculty: Mark Foster Gage 2020 |
Parting of the Seas: Parametric Acoustic PanelAdvanced Studio,
Faculty: Joel Lamere, Max Jarosz 2020 |
Equitable Design: Acoustic Helmet for Children with AutismAdvanced Studio,
Faculty: Joel Lamere, Max Jarosz 2020 |
Asilo Nido, Biblioteca and La Casa di RiposoAdvanced Studio,
Faculty: Sonia Chao 2019 |
GOOMBAY PLAZAAdvanced Studio,
Faculty: David Trautman 2018 |
PICKNEY HOUSEAdvanced Studio,
Faculty: David Trautman 2018 |
The Set Housing Development: Competition
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Brickell StageInstallation,
Design Team: Cristina Canton, Jaime Correa, Adib Cure, Steve Fett, Carie Penabad, Elie Mehreb, Bernardo Rievling and Qiazi Chen. Production Team: Tiffany Banks, Andrew Dai, Emily Elkin, Max Erickson, Marisa Gudiel, Elsa Hiraldo, AJ Guillen, Andrea Hernandez-Torres, David Holmes, Laura Martinez, Israel Martinez, Sydney Maubert, Christel Orbe, Mario Ostalaza, Cynthia Pacheco, Dorianne Paris, Cristian Ruiz-Lucio, Jack Shao, Stephanie Tarud, Yuanxun Xia 2018 |
High Rise Typology ExhibitionExhibition,
Faculty: Eric Firley, Germane Barnes, Chris Chung, University of Miami School of Architecture. 2017 |
Transformations in
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Wolfson Residential TowersAdvanced Studio,
Faculty: Roberto Behar 2017 |
ROME PROGRAM: DRAWINGSRome Program,
Faculty: Sonia Chao 2019 |
Karnikara Leaf StudyArchitecture Drawing,
Faculty: Carie Penabad 2016 |
Figure drawingDrawing,
Faculty: Gerardo Olhovich 2018 |