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Mumbo Jumbo #5<\/em><\/a>, 2000, by Francks Deceus, conveys the artist\u2019s tumultuous experience as a Haitian immigrant growing up in New York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes a picture is, in fact, worth a thousand words. Such is the case with Francks Deceus<\/a>\u2019s Mumbo Jumbo #5<\/a><\/em>. In this five-by-four-foot canvas, painted in 2000, the Brooklyn-based artist has encapsulated his experience navigating life in New York City as a Haitian immigrant growing up in the 1980s and \u201990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was chaos and confusion and energy and flux and coming and going and hustling and bustling,\u201d says Deceus. We feel all of that here.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deceus tells his story with the help of a lithe, athletic figure he calls Cappy, an alter ego named for Cap-Ha\u00eftien, the Haitian town he and his family left for Brooklyn in the late 1970s, when he was nine years old. Here, we see several versions of Cappy entangled in a network of high-pressure fire hoses along with construction cones and other allusions to barriers. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Deceus\u2019s alter-ego, Cappy, seen here in a detail from the painting, is named for his hometown of Cap-Ha\u00eftien, Haiti.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The fire-hose motif recurs across Deceus\u2019s \u201cMumbo Jumbo\u201d series, referencing notorious law-enforcement tactics used to punish peaceful Civil Rights\u2013era demonstrators. \u201cIt\u2019s a reference to human rights and the limitation of movement for a large swath of the population, from the Mayflower<\/em> to the present,\u201d explains Deceus. \u201cBut despite this hurdle, this character has still managed to find his individuality, his sense of purpose, his humanness. So you see this bursting of energy and possibility and exhilaration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, Cappy, with his broad smile, is not deterred but resilient. \u201cMy parents had education and degrees that had no significance here in terms of gaining secure employment. So, they got blue-collar jobs. It was a matter of survival \u2014 but also perseverance and what happens when barriers and obstacles are replaced with opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is a refreshing joyfulness to Francks\u2019s work,\u201d says Valentina Puccioni, of New York\u2019s Arco Gallery<\/a>, who included his paintings in a show of Caribbean art co-organized with Anderson Contemporary<\/a> in the Financial District. \u201cHe always leaves room for optimism, even though his experiences may have been full of frustration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Deceus cites African American abstractionists<\/a> Howardena Pindell, Norman Lewis and Ed Clark<\/a>, among others, as influences. His style also calls to mind children\u2019s book illustrations<\/a>, with his muted but juicy hues and crisp blocks of color and the simplified features of Cappy, who comes across as a kind of urban superhero. It\u2019s easy to imagine the impression the chaotic city made on the artist as a child. But this is clearly the work of a sophisticated artist adept at a variety of techniques. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before Deceus starts painting, he builds up his surface by layering strips of canvas. The process creates a tactile sense of the city\u2019s density and dynamism and captures a sense of the scrappy DIY survivalism of his family\u2019s early days in New York. He may also add collage<\/a> elements, like silkscreened photographs, which suggest memories of relatives or friends who made their way in and out of his life. \u201cOver the years, we probably had a dozen family members stay on our cot until they got on their feet,\u201d recalls the artist. \u201cAs a kid, you don\u2019t know the details, but there are always these kinds of stories in the back of your mind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deceus drew several Haitian Vodou cosmograms, or v\u00e8v\u00e8s<\/em>, across the bottom of Mumbo Jumbo #5<\/em>. They stand as a reminder of his family\u2019s culture but also of their marginal identity in New York as Black but not African American. The title, meanwhile, refers to the 1972 novel Mumbo Jumbo<\/em>, by African American writer Ishmael Reed, set in Harlem in the 1920s. \u201cIt\u2019s a way to bridge these two experiences \u2014 past and present, Haiti and America \u2014 and to link back to Africa and make a broader visual dialog,\u201d Deceus says of his layering of symbolic and allegorical references. \u201cI\u2019m not a very literal storyteller.\u201d As it turns out, his work is all the more powerful for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\t

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