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Artist: Sydney Vernon
Artwork Title: ‘Peacocking’
Year: 2023
Medium: Illustration
Materials: Pastel on paper
Dimensions: 22” x 35”
Artist Bio:
Sydney Vernon (born in Prince George's County, MD) lives and works in New York. Her practice centers drawing, painting, and printmaking. Black women figurations, architectures, and patterns are significant elements of her work. She has recently shown at Art and Practice in Los Angeles and The Philips Collection in Washington, D.C.
Vernon’s practice begins with drawing, but it rarely ends there. The page is where she tests how much linework it takes to form a web of connected ideas. She’s usually negotiating between realism and myth or monument and intimacy. This comes from an obsession with cycles: ancestral, menstrual, political, and natural. She likes to say, “I don't just recognize patterns, but I get stuck in them, tease them out, and reweave them until they start to sing a pleasurable tune. I draw because it's the only way I know how to record the mysteries of personhood.”
VIEW FULL IMAGE HERE.
Artist: Sydney Vernon
Artwork Title: ‘Peacocking’
Year: 2023
Medium: Illustration
Materials: Pastel on paper
Dimensions: 22” x 35”
Artist Bio:
Sydney Vernon (born in Prince George's County, MD) lives and works in New York. Her practice centers drawing, painting, and printmaking. Black women figurations, architectures, and patterns are significant elements of her work. She has recently shown at Art and Practice in Los Angeles and The Philips Collection in Washington, D.C.
Vernon’s practice begins with drawing, but it rarely ends there. The page is where she tests how much linework it takes to form a web of connected ideas. She’s usually negotiating between realism and myth or monument and intimacy. This comes from an obsession with cycles: ancestral, menstrual, political, and natural. She likes to say, “I don't just recognize patterns, but I get stuck in them, tease them out, and reweave them until they start to sing a pleasurable tune. I draw because it's the only way I know how to record the mysteries of personhood.”
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