Militza Jean-Felix

Militza Jean-Felix is a Haitian American artist from Boston, Massachusetts. She has a Bachelor in Fine Art from the Massachusetts College of Art and is a current Masters in Fine Art candidate at the California College of the Arts. Her work at the Massachusetts College of Art revolved around painting, ceramics and photography. She has done extensive travel and research in the Caribbean and in Europe. In 2001 while studying at the Ludwig Foundation in Havana she met the Afro Cuban artists of Callejon Hamel and absorbed the richness and density of their Santeria ritual spaces. She then combined this with Haitian Voudou and created large scale paintings that focused on group scenes of ritual and Guede ceremonial dances. The dancers wore menacing yet engaging masks and interacted with each other through twisted frenetic movements. At play within these works is a discourse between the perceived ominous nature of the subjects against the back drop of vividly colorful surroundings and heart felt spirituality. In 2008 she moved to France to attend the Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art and stepped into a more experimental realm incorporating the repetition of patterns, disintegrating architecture and the human figure as an afterthought into her work. She has shown her work twice at the Centre International d'Art Contemporain in France and has also shown her work in Korea and the United states. She is currently studying creative writing at the California College of the Arts, her thesis centers around her family’s real life experiences during the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010.