Five Miami Artists to Watch in 2019 by Taylor Estape →
Morel Doucet. While this Haitian-born, Miami-raised artist has most recently shown work in ceramics, Morel Doucet’s upcoming project, “New Kin, Black Kin” incorporates the flora of neighborhoods like Liberty City, Allapattah, Little Haiti, and Overtown into charcoal drawings of black portraiture. Doucet has explained that using materials like leaves, bark, and coral – whether molded in clay or pressed and affixed to paper – grounds him in his ancestral roots and ethnic identity. “New Kin, Black Kin” is more specifically an exploration of how this identity connects the artist to the land that, through climate gentrification and racial violence, could eventually witness the erasure of black bodies. The portraits themselves are soft and embracing of their subjects, transforming the landscape from something dangerous and rejecting into a witness to beauty. He’ll be showing the work at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center in the spring of 2019.
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