Daisy Youngblood
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Daisy Youngblood (born 1945) is an American modern sculptor and ceramic artist. She grew up in North Carolina and lives in New Mexico. She was a 2003 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program genius grant.
Life
Youngblood was born in 1945 in Asheville, North Carolina.{{cite web |title=Youngblood, Daisy |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Daisy_Youngblood/ |website=San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |access-date=8 August 2021}} From 1963 to 1966, Youngblood attended Virginia Commonwealth University.{{cite web|url=http://www.macfound.org/fellows/725/|title=Daisy Youngblood — MacArthur Foundation|website=www.macfound.org|access-date=23 August 2017}}
Youngblood's most well-known sculptural work comprises heads and torsos of people and animals made in low-fired clay, combined with found objects (sticks, teeth, hair). Some of the heads are explicitly representational portraits (such as her 1982 study of the art dealer Richard Bellamy). Youngblood has listed Jung and Buddhism as important theoretical influences, and has said that she is interested in "correlating worldwide religions and esoteric practices with the individual psyche."{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}
In 1999, her work appeared at McKee Gallery.{{cite news|author1=Grace Glueck|title=ART IN REVIEW; Daisy Youngblood|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/07/arts/art-in-review-daisy-youngblood.html|access-date=25 September 2014|work=The New York Times|date=May 7, 1999}} Her work is in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Modern Art.{{cite web |title=Daisy Youngblood |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/29656 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |access-date=8 August 2021 |language=en}}
See also
- low-fire pottery: earthenware and terra cotta
References
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External links
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- [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_2_38/ai_57475794 Review of her work] from Artforum, October 1999.
- [http://mckeegallery.com/artists/daisy-youngblood/ Images of her work] from the McKee Gallery (New York)
- [http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/sculptures-statues-figures/daisy-youngblood-centaur-with-a-mohawk-head-5090186-details.aspx "Centaur with a mohawk head"], Christies, 1–2 July 2008
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