Tanea Richardson is an

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artist known for her assemblages and sculptures. Richardson has exhibited her work at the

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, EFA Project Space of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), in Brooklyn, New York. Richardson employs everyday materials like telecommunication wires and cables to bind fabric, the work a comment on traditional women’s labor and society's understanding of certain bodies through textiles and language. Roberta Smith of the '' New York Times'' described her wall pieces at the

in 2008, "Initially they seem overly familiar, but they gradually become extremely particular and rather sinister." A graduate of the

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program in Los Angeles and

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, she attended Yale University’s School of Art from 2005.

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Richardson's Facebook page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Richardson, Tanea Living people African-American women artists African-American sculptors Feminist artists Artists from Los Angeles American contemporary artists 21st-century American women sculptors 21st-century American sculptors Stanford University alumni Yale School of Art alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century African-American women 21st-century African-American artists