More about ‘Accumulating Interiors’ artist Tyanna Buie
On view now in the Art Gallery at FGCU is Accumulating Interiors: Tyanna Buie and Vanessa Diaz.
The art making practices and motivations of Tyanna Buie and Vanessa Diaz differ in their approach to incorporating architectural interiors. What brings their work together is the desire to evoke psychological and emotional responses to familiar interior spaces and objects. This exhibition is their first collaboration.
Tyanna Buie’s mixed-media prints are intimate reflections on her childhood. “Given their chaotic upbringing within the foster care system, 
Buie and her siblings possess few physical reminders from their youth to carry into the present,” states the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. “Excavating her own memories and those of her family, the artist collages specific imagery into each [of her portraits]. These elements—toys, bits of clothing, jewelry, hair accessories, and other youthful adornments—serve as stand-ins for those tangible mementos that were lost long before. Emotionally-charged memorials to her complicated childhood, Buie’s screenprints are also universally resonant as mediations on memory, history, and familial loss.”
A Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI native, Tyanna Buie is a visual 
artist who received her BA from Western Illinois University, and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Buie has attended Artists-In-Residency programs, such as the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, as well as maintaining a connection to the community by hosting printmaking workshops and demonstrations while participating in Healthy Neighborhood Initiatives through the production of public art created for underserved neighborhoods in Milwaukee, WI.
In 2012, Buie received an emerging artist Mary L. Nohl Fellowship and is the recipient of the 2015 Love of Humanity Award from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, and the 2015 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant. Her work is currently on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum as part of the permanent collection.
Buie currently lives and works in Detroit, MI, where she is Assistant Professor/ Section Chair of Printmaking at the College for Creative Studies.
Accumulating Interiors is on display in the main gallery through November 17. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. and until 7:00 p.m. on Thursday.
Posted October 11, 2016.
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Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.