Mea Duke

 
 

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.

Duke holds her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and her BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Rhode Island. She has been an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Montserrat College of Art, a teaching fellow at SMFA at Tufts, and an instructor in printmaking, painting, and sculpture within the Art, Film and Visual Studies Department at Harvard University. Duke’s work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the Northeast, has been the recipient of numerous awards for her artwork and teaching, and has been featured in several publications such as New American Paintings and Studio Visit Magazine among others.