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Daisy Youngblood

Daisy Youngblood

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    View works. Daisy Youngblood, Leaping I, 2010
    Leaping I, 2010
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    Daisy Youngblood was born in Asheville, North Carolina in 1945 and today lives and works in Perez Zeledon, Costa Rica. She studied at The Richmond Professional Institute, Virginia. She began exhibiting in New York City in the late 1970s and has shown in the U.S. and internationally. Her work has been on view in solo exhibitions at Willard Gallery, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, and McKee Gallery (1993-2015), among others. Youngblood has been included in numerous group exhibitions, such as Figuratively Speaking (1981) at P.S. 1 in Long Island City, NY; Modern Masks (1984) at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; and A Labor of Love (1996) at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY. Youngblood is the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship (2003). Her work is held in many permanent collections such as The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Her work has been reviewed and featured in publications such as Artforum, ARTnews, Art in America, and The New York Times.
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  • Works
    • a bronze monkey
      Leaping I, 2010
    • a ceramic skull
      Wired Waitress, 1977
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    • Daisy Youngblood

      Daisy Youngblood

      Tender Mercy(s): Early and Late Works in Clay: 3rd Floor September 8 - October 23, 2021
      Van Doren Waxter is delighted to announce Daisy Youngblood. Tender Mercy(s): Early and Late Works in Clay, a survey of haunting animal and human forms made of low-fired clay to go on view at the gallery’s historic 1907 townhouse at 23 East 73rd Street from September 8 to October 23,...
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      Daisy Youngblood

      Tender Mercy(s): Early and Late Works in Clay 2021
      Book, Harcover, 36 pages
      ISBN: 978-1-7325933-5-0
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    • Daisy Youngblood Joins Van Doren Waxter Gallery

      by Claire Selvin, Artnews, June 7, 2019
    • The Nature of Things: Daisy Youngblood’s Clay, Sticks and Stones

      by Thomas Micchelli, Hyperallergic, April 25, 2015
    • Daisy Youngblood

      by David Ebony, Artnet News, April 22, 2015
    • 10 Galleries to Visit on the Upper East Side

      by Holland Cotter, The New York Times, April 16, 2015
    • The Nature of Nature

      by Justen Ladda, New Ceramics, October 1, 2007
    • Daisy Youngblood

      by Jan Riley, Sculpture, December 1, 2004
    • Victim of Minimalism Triumphs With Bold Ceramic Sculpture

      by Mario Naves, The New York Observer , May 17, 2004
    • Is Sculpture Too Free For Its Own Good?

      by Ken Johnson, The New York Times, May 7, 2004
    • Daisy Youngblood at David McKee

      by Elanor Heartney, Art in America, November 1, 1999
    • Daisy Youngblood

      by David Frankel, Artforum, October 1, 1999
    • The Anatomy of Melancholy

      by Janet Koplos, Art in America, October 1, 1991

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