LOS ANGELES — The work of Myrlande Constant, a kaleidoscope of dazzling sequins, swirling designs, and intricate beadwork, is inseparable from her Haitian heritage and spiritual beliefs. Like many ...
Myrlande Constant, "Devosyon Makaya" (c. 2021–24), beads, sequins, and tassels on fabric (all photos Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic) Myrlande Constant’s opulent textile art can be so captivating that ...
Haitian artist Myrlande Constant’s fantastical world is a vast expanse of gods, demigods, spirits, saints, symbols, nature, myth, and magic — expressed in large-scale embroidered and hand-beaded ...
The field of outsider art continues to expand its parameters, encompassing not only the output of self-taught artists, visionary artists, folk artists, vernacular artists. Magical Women brings ...
The work of Haitian artist Myrlande Constant is getting attention at the top of the contemporary art world. Her meticulously embroidered flags, known as drapos, were featured at the Venice Biennale ...
DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) -Figge Art Museum is excited to be promoting current exhibit, Myrlande Constant: DRAPO, on display through May 4. Myrlande Constant has been creating drapo, or Vodou flags, for ...
A detail view of Myrlande Constant's "Sosyete Radha," 2024. Akron Art Museum acquired this drapo using beads, sequins, and tassels on fabric for its permanent collection. Myrlande Constant creates ...
Myrlande Constant’s tapestries, drawn from Haitian Vodou traditions, take textile art to new heights with exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles. Myrlande Constant at Fort Gansevoort gallery in ...
“I woke up this morning and I thanked God, and I tell all the spirits ‘thank you’ for giving me the strength to make flags,” Myrlande Constant said, looking up at her colorful beaded Vodou flags ...