July 17 – September 26, 2021
Art League Gallery
Reception: September 3 | 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Please join us with Tyanna Buie for a free, public gallery talk about her work beginning at 6:15 p.m.
Through the use of Deep-Fake technology and easily accessible tools such as smartphone applications (ReFace, Momento, Giphy), Tyanna Buie’s recent self-portraits are created through pre-existing Memes and Gifs. Combined with images and texts solely derived from mass-media, they re-imagine the possibility of pop-culture, identity, appropriation, social movements, politics, and authorship.
A Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI native, Tyanna Buie 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 Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, LA, 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 and communities in Milwaukee, and Madison, WI. Her extensive exhibition record includes: The Haggerty Museum of Art, The Racine Art Museum, N’NAMDI Center for Contemporary Art, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, The Milwaukee Art Museum, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the Alice Wilds, among others. She has also been the recipient of numerous awards, including an emerging artist Mary L. Nohl Fellowship in 2012, the Love of Humanity Award from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation and the prestigious Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant in 2015, the 2019 Kresge Artist Fellowship in the Visual Arts, the 2019/2020 Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA, and the 2020 Fellowship.art award, a top accelerator award/program funded through gener8tor. Buie’s work has been acquired by major institutions and private collections nationally and her work has been reviewed on Hyperallergic.com and featured on Essay’d.com. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor/Section Chair of Printmaking at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI.
Learn more about Buie and her work at tyannajbuie.com.
Image: Tyanna Buie, I’m Speaking, 2021, digital print, 16 x 20 inches
Sponsored in part by Courtyard by Marriott, downtown South Bend. Providing artist accommodations for our 2021 season of exhibitions.
