Brenna Youngblood

Youngblood, Brenna





Brenna Youngblood was born Apr 30 1979 BirthRiverside, USA.
Lives and works in HomeLos Angeles, United States.

Categories: Collage Painting Photography

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Youngblood collages and combines her own photographs in painted grounds to create richly layered panels of fractured and elusive narratives. Her methods obscure photographic meaning and challenge the representative power of her selected images; context is altered and significance shifts as Youngblood manipulates the everyday objects and familiar settings in her photographs. Abstraction and representation intermingle in these visually arresting and complex panels, evoking the moments, objects, and spaces shared in our collective memory…
It is problematic to mention that Brenna Youngblood is an artist of color. First we are still debating what that designation means and why it is relevant to mention it, and second it sounds like affirmative action…

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