Van Hillegaerstraat 10D
1072, Amsterdam, Holland
Contact: Amy B. Management
Ford Fellowship awarded to attend California College of Arts and Crafts MFA, CCAC, 1990
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York BA/BS Graduated 1989
Awarded 'Writer of the Year' 1988
High School of Music and Performing Arts, New York, 1980-1984
Dawkins de Boer (the farmer): a combination of two people working as one (Femi Dawkins and Anna de Boer)
EXHIBITIONS / INSTALLATIONS (Amsterdam, Holland 1997-Present)
Mundial Festival in Tilburg, Holland - Presenting 'Cargo 1998' Homefront Installations and Altar Pieces centered in and around the studio/home of Dawkins de Boer in mixed media
Kon Makandra (Surinamese Organisation)- Monthly childrens workshop 'Artefacts Lost and Found' (Dawkins de Boer) exhibition with three other local artists, Amsterdam, Holland
'Other Voices, Other Rooms' (Dawkins de Boer) Installations of Artefacts commissioned by the Dutch Design Center, Utrecht, Holland 'Abstract of the Evidence' (Dawkins de Boer) five room installation depicting the middle passage experience to the present, Amsterdam, Holland
'Faces and Masks' (Dawkins de Boer) Installation of large drawings, ceramic masks and objects, Amsterdam, Holland
'Ghetto Haikus' Large scale paintings and objects
Second Skin October 1999 Michalopoulous Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca. 'Dirty Laundry' installation of paintings/sculptures/masks/drawings at The Bradbury Building, Los Angeles, Feb-May 2000
The National Democratic Center, Los Angeles. Group show of local contemporary artists. April 2000
'Fresh Cut Afros' Watts Tower, Los Angeles. July 2000.
Commissioned works 1997-2000 various clients
VIDEO AND RECORDINGS
Art Direction 'Plastik' (seven videos)
'Skalalations' Directed by Adrienne Jenik, poetry by Jimmy Rage 'Black Mud Sound' Jazz Quartet and Poetry, Germany and New York 'God Squad' Poetry, Gospel and Drum'n'Bass Sabotage Sound Surfers, Breakbeat and Drum'n'Bass
We are all, I suppose, seeking to interact and exchange our vision, be it in thoughts in words, or colours abstracted and drawn into forms, real and unreal, sane and provocative. Artists seek to make real the inner most part of their epoch, cultures converge and part, speaking of the same desires and frustration, autobigraphical tales of alienation, diasaporal despair, for change and direction. The truth is we live in a world of signs and cipers that we manipulate to form symbolic trophies of our own device.
Femi Dawkins is available for commissioned works.
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