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In the 46 years between her birth, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1961, and her death in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2008, Gelsy Verna produced a broad and deep artistic record of her experience of moving through the world. Through a broad oeuvre of drawings, collages, paintings, prints, and photographs, she reflected on the mutability of images, words, signs and symbols across cultures and between individuals. Verna’s is an art of established iconographies, references to spiritual traditions and political histories, but it is also full of secrets, private meanings and inscrutable non-sequiturs. It taps into rich, ancient sources of significance and association, while retaining the intimate, inward quality of a private diary. Insights into the transmigrational currents of the globe might be attributed to a series of relocations—at three years old, her family left Haiti for Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), and just four years later, settled in Montreal, Canada. By the time she…
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In the 46 years between her birth, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1961, and her death in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2008, Gelsy Verna produced a broad and deep artistic record of her experience of moving through the world. Through a broad oeuvre of drawings, collages, paintings, prints, and photographs, she reflected on the mutability of images, words, signs and symbols across cultures and between individuals. Verna’s is an art of established iconographies, references to spiritual traditions and political histories, but it is also full of secrets, private meanings and inscrutable non-sequiturs. It taps into rich, ancient sources of significance and association, while retaining the intimate, inward quality of a private diary. Insights into the transmigrational currents of the globe might be attributed to a series of relocations—at three years old, her family left Haiti for Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), and just four years later, settled in Montreal, Canada. By the time she…
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