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 IIT's Jeanne and John Rowe Fellowship. She was the 2022- 2024 Cornell Strauch Fellow.
Exhibitions
ON VIEW
AIRIE Artist in Residence in the Everglades:
Land- Learning Group Show Fellow 2023 October 2024- April 2025
AIRIE Nest Gallery Homestead, FL |
ON VIEW
Union Street Gallery:
Remembrances Group Show October 18, 2024- November 11, 2024
Union Street Gallery Chicago, IL |
CLOSEDGhetto Funeral: TenBerke
March 18, 2024- June 7, 2024
TenBerke Architects, Madison Ave, NYC "Ghetto Funeral" features recent paintings and tapestries that highlight the family histories and memories, collectively representing Maubert's community in Homestead, FL-- the lens through which the artist explores loss of home, culture and place and invokes conversations surrounding gentrification and displacement. Inspired by the culture of Homestead, through a series of large scale paintings, Maubert documents daily life through portraits of family, community, joy, and grief through the exploration of material culture. The work ultimately is a series of large scale vignettes as exercises in memory and grief.
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CLOSED
As We Move Forward: Augusta Savage Gallery
Feb 7- May 1st, 2024
Augusta Savage Gallery, Amherst, MA This piece is a gold chain, exhibited as part of a curated group show of Black women artists from Miami at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Augusta Savage Gallery. Inspired by Savage’s life as a sculptor and portrait artist, as well as heritage to South Florida, raised questions for me as an artist working in the contemporary South, whose modern relationship with metal exists at a much more intimate scale-- through bling culture and jewelry. Elaborating on her practice as a bronze portraitist, I used my parallel experiences and heritage to inform my contemporary interpretation of her practice by making a modern day chain. This piece hopes to deposit another artifact into her sculptural repository, with an acute sensitivity to home. Thinking about the ways that Black women and men adorn themselves with gold, rich and ornate jewelry practices in the South, I made a piece that is both audacious and nostalgic of this practice shared by both Black men and women in the South and Caribbean. It also is playing on gender constructions and sensorium given that large chain ornaments are typically worn by men, where scale becomes the gendered construct. This work was designed by the artist, fabricated by Atelier Legacy.
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closedGreenSpace Miami: Queen of the Swamp — Poe Lil Rich Girl
November 18- March 31st, 2024
GreenSpace Miami, FL This project relies on the aesthetics of rappers Trick Daddy, Trina, Jacki-O, City Girls, Uncle Luke, and DJ Uncle Al, to consider urban and environmental challenges to the politics of visibility and visuality of impropriety within the built environment. These artists often used block parties and the appeal of Black aesthetics to disrupt gun violence within their respective neighborhoods. This work uses the block party and their attending aesthetics as an alternative way to navigate environmental violence, advanced marginalization, and displacement of Caribbean communities, proposing a study of the material culture of said artists to yield a new type of architecture. Miami Bass’s material culture includes gold teeth, jewelry, and donk cars, which are the material residue of the Saltwater Railroad. Such an aesthetic represents more than pure contact; it offers an entry point to consider the material and conceptual terrain through which one finds innovations of culture, identity, and space. This cultural geography allows research to expand from the Everglades and traverse a larger cultural terrain, including the Caribbean, Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. This work is interested in identifying a Miami architectural vernacular and uses its aesthetics as a solution to our swampland’s woeful reputation as being uninhabitable.
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closedAIRIE Artist in Residence in the Everglades:
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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closedCornell Hartell Gallery: 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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closedCornell Sibley Hall: 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
group exhibitionLAND- LEARNING
AIRIE Nest Gallery
October 2024- April 2025 |
GROUP EXHIBITION
remembrancesUnion Street Gallery
October 2024- November 2024 |
solo exhibitionGhetto funeral |
group exhibitionAS WE MOVE FORWARD
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BibliographyMIAMI- BASED ARTISTS AND ARTS ORGANISATIONS GRAPPLE WITH GENTRIFICATION
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GRANT RECIPIENT
OOLITE ARTS CREATOR AWARD 2023
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GRANT RECIPIENT
gREENSPACE MIAMI:
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BIBLIOGRAPHYarchitect magazine: next progressive |
SPEAKING
Remembering Home_Critical Fabulation and Imaginations of___ |
ARTIST TALK
sTILL HERE: GENERATIONS OF BLACK MIAMI ARTMAKING |
publicationLog 57: black is... black ain't
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teaching fellowshipCornell Strauch Fellow 2022- 2024
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ARTIST TALK
AIRIE Asks + Listening Party
Everglades, Florida
July 2023 |
artist residencyAIRIE Artist in Residency in the Everglades June 2023 Fellow
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SPEAKING
eth zurich seven questions curatorial |
SPEAKING
Spring 2022 BSA+GSAPP One-Day Symposium |
selected work 2016- 2022
Intimacies of the Walls: Homeplace and refusalsCornell AAP, Strauch Fellow
Photography: Anson Wigner Funding: Cornell College of Architecture 2022 |
Cartographies of BraidingYale Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Abeer Seikaly 2022 |
Haitian- Cuban DwapoYale Advanced Studio
Faculty: Tatiana Bilbao 2021 |
Say our namesSydney R. Maubert, LLC
Size: 5x 4' Material: Acrylic on canvas Site: Youth Concept Gallery 2020 |
Forgotten Black MeccaYale Architecture Elective,
Faculty: Justin G. Moore 2021 |
Syndicate 5th Ave MuralSydney R. Maubert LLC
Size: 25'X 10' Medium: Acrylic on concrete Client: WYNWOOD ART DISTRICT 2020 |
Syndicate 2nd Ave MuralSydney R. Maubert LLC
Client: WYNWOOD ART DISTRICT Size: 30'X 12' Medium: Acrylic on concrete 2020 |
WUYÁMUSH MEMORIAL AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY LABYale Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Tod Williams, Billie Tsien and Andrew Benner 2020 |
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on the shoulders of giantsClient: University of Miami School of Law
Size: 6'X4' Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Jared L. Davis Rededication Ceremony 2021 |
Data Collection, Blackness and the Almighty DollarYale Architecture Elective,
Faculty: Mark Foster Gage 2020 |
Parting of the Seas: Parametric Acoustic PanelUniversity of Miami Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Joel Lamere, Max Jarosz 2020 |
Equitable Design: Acoustic Helmet for Children with AutismUniversity of Miami Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Joel Lamere, Max Jarosz 2020 |
Asilo Nido, Biblioteca and La Casa di RiposoUniversity of Miami Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Sonia Chao 2019 |
GOOMBAY PLAZAUniversity of Miami Advanced Studio,
Faculty: David Trautman 2018 |
PICKNEY HOUSEUniversity of Miami Advanced 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 TowersUniversity of Miami Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Roberto Behar 2017 |
ROME PROGRAM: DRAWINGSUniversity of Miami Rome Program,
Faculty: Sonia Chao 2019 |
Karnikara Leaf StudyUniversity of Miami Architecture Elective,
Faculty: Carie Penabad 2016 |
Figure drawingUniversity of Miami Drawing,
Faculty: Gerardo Olhovich 2018 |