« This is the best of political art, I think, because it refuses to descend to rhetoric and uses the innate attractiveness of nature to assert the point that we are in a place of extraordinary responsibility regarding the life of many species. Paul recognizes this, and very successfully engages her audience in her art. » Jonathan Goodman

November 24th 2019

March – April 2017 About The Cover

March 6, 2017

In 1705, botanist and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian published Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, her fantastically detailed illustrations of plants and insects in Suriname. Her book was recently republished, but Dominique Paul has been fascinated by Merian’s work for several years, judging by her exhibition The Insects of Suriname, on view at Miyako Yoshinaga from April 20 to May 27. In the detail of Insects of Suriname 21, 2014, on our cover, fragments of (mostly male) bodies emerge out of the flora and fauna. Paul collages photographs from bodybuilding magazines onto Merian’s botanicals, lighting the image through various objects – water bottles, glass bowls, take-out containers – to produce a dappled affect, as if the sun were filtered through a canopy of trees. Upending gendered ideas about nature, the work feels very current in its emphasis on metamorphosis and possibility.

Nexus Media News by Owen Agnew : Article and Short video filmed in the South Bronx during the May 6th 2017 Janes' Jacob environmental justice walk. I was participating with the Air Quality wearable.

Air Quality wearable at Meyzeek Middle school and downtown Air Quality walk, IDEASxLab residency in Louisville and New York, thanks to the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Photo courtesy of IDEASx Lab

Story on local NPR blog
June 12th 2017, walk is part of an artist residency with IDEASxLab in New York and Louisville thanks to the support of the Canada Council for the Arts

Video documenting the walk on June 12th 2017
The walk is part of an artist residency with IDEASxLab in New York and Louisville thanks to the support of the Canada Council for the Arts

Wearable Artwork Raises Awareness about Air Quality

The surprising series of photomontages "Insects of Suriname" by the artist Dominique Paul exposed by Miyako Yoshinaga depicts an extraordinary and psychedelic world worthy of a painting by Jerôme Bosch. The idea of ​​metamorphosis and hybridity of the body being central in his work. Dominique Paul transforms "insects" by fragmentation, mutation and games of scaling the bodies the men from Suriname, the least densely populated country in South America.

20th Anniversary exhbition, Part I, Photography, until April 27th, 2019,
Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery

Wearing the Increasing Revenue Gap dress at chashama benefit gala, June 2016. Photo credits Joe Schildhorn
The Increasing Revenue Gap dress is presenting CEO earnings vs the employees average salary. The front presents 1965 ratio of CEO earning 20 times the average employee and the back, 2013, CEO earning 296 times average employee, dress made in 2014.

Article on artwork at Marie Saint Pierre's Falgship store, Wynwood, Miami

1er au 25 mai 2014 Galerie d'art d'outremont

See: Dominique Paul’s Cool, Wearable Sculptures

Greenburger Collection by N. Hegert presents two photographs of Insects of Surinam 19 Window installation as a light box

Scroll down and see the first plastic bags dress and the helmet for Méduse

White dress at the New Museum White Party

White plastic bags dress : Concept is one piece of netting, theme is festive

Review of Exhibition at Laurentides MOCA (MAC des Laurentides), Fall 2012

Review by Ron Mwangaguhunga of my works exhibited at the AC Institute last March-April 2012, Chelsea, New York

Video at Eric Devlin's Gallery