phyllis lear

In recent years, Phyllis Lear has begun to explore the fabric yo-yo (or "Suffolk Puff') as an art form. Traditionally used as a quilting technique, she appropriates the yo-yo as a module for building fine art pieces. Many of these quilted works speak to current events as well as personal experiences.

This work stands as a critique on the way Art History is taught in schools, which tends to omit artists of color and women in the arts (unless they are the subject, of course).

Lear received the 2005 Visual Artist Fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts and was the recipient of the Donald F. Derby Endowed Professorship in 2017. She presently teaches at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in private collections from Toronto to New Orleans.

BRG Artist Member since 2005

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Works on view at the Baton Rouge Municipal airport