Haitian Beatz

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Live and work in New York, USA, Michele Claude Garoute Michel started painting at a very early age. She was only 5 years old when she won her first award for art. Everyone thought it was ephemeral then. As time would show however, a visit by her father Tiga (a prominent Haitian artist) in New York 1991 reaffirmed her true passion for art. Like an explosion Klode the artist came out, and through her outburst we are left beneficiaries of marvelous wonders.

(Tiga'daughter- Klode)

Klode paints on canvas, paper, and hardboard, among her mediums, she uses a well develop technique by her father known as Soleil Brule which is best described as the synchronization of earthly tones which emit obscure forms and figures, suggesting a condition of modification as if observing the accomplishment of a transmutation. klode's startling originality of work shows that she has approached her medium with daring and her creativeness is boundless.