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Mea Duke

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Featured in New American Paintings

Artist Statement

Mea Duke is a Rhode Island-based interdisciplinary artist working in representational painting and printmaking. Her work occupies the space between painting an object and a painting as object, exploring how iconic design language, function, materiality, memory, and time shape the way we see and assign meaning to things.

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Education

  • MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, US
  • BFA, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, US
  • BFA, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US

Solo Exhibitions

  • Dreamliners, Jessica Hagen Fine Art, Newport, RI, US
  • SPF, Jessica Hagen Fine Art, Newport, RI, US
  • Don't Look I'm Changing, Jessica Hagen Fine Art, Newport, RI, US
  • Mea Duke, Newport Curates, Newport, RI, US

Represented By

  • Jessica Hagen Fine Art, Newport, RI
  • Dryden Gallery, North Providence, RI

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