Improvisations, Tyanna J. Buie

Please join us on Friday, December 9th, 2022 from 5-8PM for the opening reception of IMPROVISATIONS by Tyanna J. Buie; this will be the second solo exhibition of new work by Tyanna J. Buie at The Alice Wilds.
 
“Improvisations” consist of new work by Tyanna J. Buie that utilizes video and print media combined with methods such as, painting, drawing, collage, screenprinting, and Deep-Fake technology; they intersect between self-portraiture, personal narrative, pop-culture, Black cultural significant moments, social movements, and authorship, which allows the artist to challenge her history through the retelling of past events, and the remaking of images as she reimagines the future. 

A Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI native, Tyanna J. 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 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.

Buie has been a visiting artist lecturer in Tennessee, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Alabama, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, Rhode Island, and Arizona, while continuing to exhibit her works in numerous juried, group and solo exhibitions throughout the country. Her extensive exhibition record includes: The Contemporary Invitational Print and Drawing exhibition at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, The Haggerty Museum of Art, The Racine Art Museum, The Red Bull House of Art, 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, the Wriston Art Center, the Museum of Wisconsin Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Simone DeSousa Gallery and The Alice Wilds.

Buie received 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 and New American Paintings No. 155. Currently, Buie is an Associate Professor/Section Chair of Printmaking at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI. 
 

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IMPROVISATIONS runs from Friday, December 9th through Saturday, January 28th. The artist will be in attendance on Friday, December 9th for the opening reception and also for Gallery Night on Friday, January 20th and will host a Q&A at The Alice Wilds on Saturday, January 21st at 2PM. We hope to see you soon!