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Size: 10'X8' Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Client: Yale School of Architecture 2022 |
This mural represents how Miami's architecture is a result of its complicated kinship with the Caribbean. It was completed at Yale SoA for her thesis.
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On
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"ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS" was commissioned for the University of Miami's School of Law, for the rededication of the Jaret Davis Workspace. The overall encompassing image of the woman with her hair is Angela Davis.
Top row: Eula Johnson (NAACP chair who worked to desegregate Ft. Lauderdale), le Neg Mawon in Haiti, Malcolm X and Muhammad, Marvin Dunn (former vet and treasured Miami Black Historian), D.A. Dorsey (Miami millionaire), Arthur McDuffie (victim of police brutality, instigation of massive race riots in Miami), 1980 Miami (Liberty City) riots. Second row: Thurgood Marshall, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, Tuskegee Airmen and a female nurse, Felipe Luciano (Afrolatin Puerto Rican poet and prison rights activist, as well as a loud and prominent advocate for Black, Latinx, and LGBTQ community. Third Row: Miami Dade County Police Building named after the First Black Director of Police, Black Panther Members, Lady Justice, Breonna Taylor, Marsha P. Johnson, Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin. Bottom left hand corner of her afro: a veteran marine of the Vietnam war, two women back to back representing the hair regulations in the military of black women's hair. To the right side of her hair: the Zong ship from the notorious Zong ship Massacre Trial and finally the race wall in Liberty City. |
Watch the Youtube Video of the Rededication Ceremony.
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Could
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"Could This be Love?" mural is depicting Sydney's ritual use of the bathroom, and the strangulation of the ritual through standardization. The exercise of mural painting the experiences personal to Sydney forced her to explore the space more critically as a user, de-positioning myself as the idealistic designer, and rather the honest person engaging with herself, identity and vulnerabilities. See her Could This Be Love Mural video.
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Watch the Youtube video to see the full explanation of the project and to watch her make a 4' x 7' tapestry.
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Syndicate
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Shown is Sydney's second mural, completed alone at a Kava bar in Wynwood, Miami's art district. The mural shows portraits of the music artists Billie Eilish, Megan Thee Stallion and Lil Peep, and is meant to be a celebration of diversity of sound in modern music, and the synthesis of Pop, Rock and Hip Hop. Click to find the article published about her mural practice.
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Syndicate
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Shown above is Sydney's first mural, completed alone at a Kava bar in Wynwood, Miami's art district. The mural shows portraits of the music artists Travis Scott, Lil Peep and Janis Joplin, and is meant to show the the progression of music from past, present to future and the synthesis of Rock and Hip Hop. Click to find the article published about her mural practice.
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Community
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This was a commission done for Covenant Missionary Baptist Church, Florida City. They are hosting a community fridge in which bystanders can donate untouched fridge for the community who might be hungry or financially crippled.
Find the instagram for the fridge linked, as well as the featured article. |
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SYDNEY
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The portraits were custom commissions done through Sydney R. Maubert, LLC, a small business Sydney started in hopes of supporting her artistic practice. Many of them were capturing black city life in Miami, hip hop artists or family portraits.
You can find more information on specific pieces by contacting Sydney, or checking out her business instagram. |
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Guardian
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Guardian Angels was commissioned by a student seeking portraits of her father, and deceased paternal grandparents looking over his shoulders.
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Tignon
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The "Tignon Law" image was produced for Professor Mark Gage's class at Yale University School of Architecture, exploring object making and in this case, objects of protest. Black fashion trends often become politicized and in the late 1800s, Tignon law to today with the rise of Corona and racial protests. Black hair became the object of controversy in the 1800s and legacy lives on today. In the late 1800s Louisiana, Black and creole women were asked to cover their hair, and the hair coverings were become embellishments, adorned with feathers, jewelry, high glamourized forms. The suppression of black bodies have always become some form of violence, whether it be psychological, socioeconomic or physical violence through systemic oppression. This piece hopes to depoliticize fashion and black bodies.
This was a response to an assignment in Yale's School of Architecture, we were asked in an introductory exercise to make a piece that would evoke human compassion in regards to the racial tensions in America. Trayvon Martin, 17 year old African American boy from Miami Gardens walking around his father's neighborhood. Stephon Clark, 22 year old man executed in his grandmother's backyard for holding a phone, "mistaken for a weapon". Tamir Rice, 12 year old boy playing cops and robbers in the snow with another child, and was gunned down by police. The woman in front was a protester in DC tear gassed and consequently had milk poured over her. The depiction of the three boys as saints in hoodies is a social commentary on the demoralization of black men, politicized casual fashion, the decriminalization of black men and the solidarity black men and women have with one another.
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Say
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"Say Our Names". This is a 5x4' painting, acrylic. Sydney read each of their stories and painted a face. This was a personal project.
Left to right, Tanisha Anderson, 37, mom needing medical assistance during a bipolar episode, slammed by police and died in front of her house with daughter watching at the window. Aiyana Jones, 7 years old, asleep on her grandma's couch. Sean Reed, 21, former airman, died on Facebook live. Jamar Clark, 24 year old father. Breonna Taylor, 26, EMT, in her apartment with a no- knock warrant. Rayshard Brooks, 27, asleep in his car. John Edwards 15, nicknamed "Smiley", shot in the passenger seat of his brothers' car returning home from a party. Michael Brown, 18 year old high school kid, "hands up don't shoot". Atatiana Jefferson, 28, pre- med student playing video games with her 8 year old nephew. This piece was self initiated and is currently housed and owned by Youth Concept Gallery, FL. |
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Angela Davis doesn’t want you to reduce her legacy to the woman with the Afro. Though black hair became “politicized fashion” or “70s nostalgia”, she hopes to be remembered as an icon of liberation. While in jail she discovered the disproportionate, repression of black, chicanos, working class white people, as well as women and mothers in prison. Her lifelong dedication and criticism of the prison system, and her remarkable ability to connect multiracial committees, religious institutions, schools, factories to free political prisoners as historical agents should be remembered long before her beauty.
Shali Tilson was a 22 year old Haitian American man from Georgia, with a business called "Urban Perspective" and had a passion for highlighting the youth in his community. He also happened to have schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, which makes his achievements and compassion for others all the more remarkable. During a mental health crisis was taken under police custody and was a victim of the prison system, was seriously neglected and abused and died a completely avoidable death. His legacy and passion for others should overshadow what was only three days of his life. This image is to bring awareness to his case and the current, unacceptable conditions of the prison system.
The images are personal studies of Shali Tilson and Oluwatoyin Salau, both victims of the disproportionate violence and oppression of the black community. The purpose of the "Say Our Names" series is to depict positive images of the black community and highlight attention towards the difficult but necessary conversations needed to have about equitable spaces and humanity. This is an emotional exercise done to highlight police brutality, the prison system and systemic racism.
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momPortrait,
Size: 24x 36" Material: ACRYLIC ON CANVAS Site: Miami 2020 |
This is a portrait of Sydney's mother. Thank you for all your ongoing support.
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This piece was inspired by interest in the "Kardashian Curse", it is a reimagining of Caravaggio's Madonna and Child with St. Anne.
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Self
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The paintings shown here are oil paintings done from photographs, the black and white image is a portrait of Sydney, the colored images are done from a photograph of her friend. She was experimenting with color and value for intermediate painting with Professor Kyle Trowbridge.
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