Amira Brown
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PROJECT STATEMENT
The works "Like Father Like Lightning" and "Father Daughter Speculative Stroll" aim to contextualize the dynamics between Parent of the Artist and the growth and changes in perspective as Amira ages, hitting parental milestones that her parents were already managing, with no children. They bring up the concepts of nature vs nurture, cultural memories, and in these imagined intervening a place to move into understanding and caring for black familial bonds. The works aims to go back in time and talk and question who her Father was when he was young and the same age in terms of being minors from different times.
I am my own Green Pasture, 2021
Mixed media on wood
12 by 16 in.
30.48 by 40.64 cm.
Like Father Like Lightning, 2021
Mixed media on wood
12 by 16 in.
30.48 by 40.64 cm.
Father Daughter Speculative Stroll, 2021
Mixed media on wood
20 by 20 in.
50.8 by 50.8 cm.
(b. 1994) is an interdisciplinary artist who utilizes illustration, painting, and repurposing found objects to capture various psychological subtleties. She graduated from Paier College of Art with a BFA in 2016 and is a current MFA candidate at the University of Connecticut. Her work has been featured at the William Benton Museum, Storrs; SWIVEL Gallery, New York; and Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven. She is also on the White Columns Artist Registry.