nadīne lafond

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Nadīne LaFond is a painter working on paper and canvas, creating images that explore journey and dimension through the layering of symbols. Coming from a long line of visual artists, poets and musicians, LaFond began drawing symbols at age four while visiting family in Haiti. Relying on cues from Nature and personal experiences, her work often depicts pathways, doorways and windows that peer through figures while layering the bird's eye view and the eye to eye encounter at once.

She is a musician performing as lead vocalist with experimental roots band, Swampadelica and is a member of percussionist troupe, Ahmondylla Best and Wogbledoe, as well as storytelling trio, Nyamakala Medicine Stories.

Nadīne LaFond was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in New Jersey where she currently lives, and studied at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts. She is presently a teaching artist with Paul Robeson Gallery in Rutgers University.

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Making art for me starts with those moments in Life that immediately strike me as lessons. When the underlying tale begins to emerge, I simply follow that energy.