Roslyn M. Dupré The daily devotional

The daily devotional is the latest installment of Roslyn M. Dupré’s ongoing experimentations with fiber technique, language, and ritual. An assemblage of photographs and intimate sewn works, the exhibition explores the artist’s reactions to text, to forms of language, and to traditional fiber work. The project initially began as a reaction to the unusual circumstances of the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown and continues as a growing record and investigation of repetition and permutation. Using a $1.25 mass-market paperback version of Michael Crichton’s Andromeda Strain, Dupré performed daily repetitive acts cutting, quilting, pleating, reassembling and photographing pages into small works. This site-specific installation in the Lawndale stairway invites a close examination of ritual, creating an experience of repetitive action similar to the process of their making.

From left: Woven 1, thread on found paper and Real time loss, thread on found paper, both images courtesy of the artist.

Roslyn Dupré is a sculptor, fabricator and observer. She works with cultural technologies and everyday materials to distort and communicate immediate perceptions of personal sites. Recent solo exhibitions of her work have included “On US” at the LRT Gallery (2024); “Regarding your theories of time and place” at Gallery 1, University of Houston (2024); “Case Study: Sargasso Sea” at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (2024); “Southern Gothic” in the Box 13 Back Gallery (2022); and “Savage Bayou” at the Bosque Gallery at Lone Star College (2022). Dupré is a third-year MFA candidate in Sculpture at the University of Houston where she is a Cynthia Woods Mitchell fellow. Her bronze work has been collected by the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs for the Civic Arts Collection – Airport Portable Works Collection.