Description
ARTIST STATEMENT
Through figurative painting and self-portraiture, my work addresses the intimacy of understanding oneself and how that affects my relationships with others. I want to build imagery of identity, not just myself but women of color. Capturing the joys, the vulnerability, even anger or sadness. My process combines hand-dyed paper with drawn and painted figures. I wanted to show the contrast between the paper being more abstract and the painting being more detailed or thought out.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bria Corranda (b.1994, Chicago, IL) is a figurative artist who lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. She studied Animation at Columbia College Chicago but shifted her work to traditional painting completing her first series “Don’t Call Me Beautiful” in 2021. Her work has been viewed in galleries in Chicago, Detroit, and Los Angeles.
© Bria Corranda