When artist Firelei Báez found this 5,000-square-foot space in Red Hook, it was twice the size of her old place and it had a kitchen already. Plus “there were walls in place, and all I had to do was just tweak it to what I needed.”
Báez was born in the Dominican Republic in Santiago de los Caballeros . At 7, she accompanied her mother and sisters to the U.S., eventually settling in Miami. Her heritage has continued to inform her work, which explores the history and myths of the Caribbean diaspora. When she was little, “I went to a different school every year,” she says.
She went to college at the Cooper Union, then graduate school at Hunter. But she never stopped moving. At various times, her roommates included artists Jacolby Satterwhite, Heather Hart, and Simone Leigh. She would hold down five jobs and paint in whatever space she could find. “My studio time would be from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m.,” she says.
Her current loft is divided into three large studio spaces on one side with the living area on the other. Unfinished work in various stages is everywhere, and all canvases begin on the floor, where Báez has constructed a rolling platform from which she can perch and move from one area to another. Many of the canvases start with enlarged scans of old maps or book pages, a practice that started when she was a student.
“I think growing up in precarity prepared me for the life of an artist because I knew that poverty wasn’t the end of things and I knew that moving wasn’t insurmountable. If I had grown up with the idea that a change in my environment was the end of all things, it would have destroyed me.”Báez painted an arch over the front door. The lit candle on the right is her clock: When it burns down, it’s the end of the workday.
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