Cara Marie Young is an interdisciplinary artist from Georgia, but is currently based in Detroit as she pursues her MFA at Wayne State University.. Her work often involves rich textures, some of which blur the lines between 2D and 3D. Cara’s work explores many themes including duality, blackness, suffering, desire, beauty, and a myriad of other issues. Check out our posts on Facebook and Instagram, to see our reflections about Cara’s work, as well as direct quotes from the artist.
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Artist Statement
Beneath every type and layer of skin embodies a different story in the realms of human experience. This is the link that drives me to paint with a variety of media and one way to express the complexity of human existence including the layers of my own. As a dark-skinned woman raised in the South of the United States, life can occasionally be lived skin-deep. This is thin layer that determines acceptance, beauty, and foreseeably a future. Through the medium of paper, its various uses, its multiple textures and connections to human skin, these mediums merge to express the social displacement of skin color and the physical limits of paper itself. I hope that my work will reveal the nuance of human color along with the distinction of struggle experienced moving through an ever-evolving history, one page after another.
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Mammy 2019 oil, collage, acrylic, and pastel on canvas 36 x 48 $1100 |
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Type 4 2019 oil, ink, handmade paper, and watercolor on paper 24 x 24 $200 |
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White 2019 oil, collage, and acrylic on wood 36 x 36 $800 |
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Borders 2019 oil, collage, acrylic, and pastel on canvas 48 x 36 $950 |
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Type 2 2019 oil, handmade paper, watercolor on paper 24 x 24 $200 |
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Behind Black 2019 oil and acrylic on resurfaced silkscreen 3’ x 5’ x 2” $1000 |
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Type 5 2019 oil, ink, handmade paper, watercolor on paper 24 x 24 SOLD |
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Type 6 2019 oil, ink, and collage on paper 24 x 24 $200 |
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Color Blind 2020 oil and aqueous media on board 36 x 48 x 2” $1000 |
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Deliverance 2020 painted watercolor collage on canvas 30 x 30 $500 |
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Figure Study 2020 acrylic on tar paper 20 x 40 $250 |
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Shadow Dance 2020 acrylic and collage on tar paper dimensions variable NFS |
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Splice, Digitize, Evolve, Intertwine, Birth, Succession, Disconnect 2020 oil, collage, aqueous media, and found materials on wood panel 24 x 48 NFS |
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Cattleya trianae 2018 oil, collage, and watercolor on wood 16 x 28 $450 |
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Woman of Night 2019 oil, ink, collage, and watercolor on wood 36 x 36 $850 |
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Descent into the Diaspora 2019 oil, collage, and tar paper on wood board 20 x 20 On hold |
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Alstroemeria 2019 acrylic and collage on recycled textile 3' x 5’ $800 |
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Hedera algeriensis 2018 oil, watercolor, and pencil on wood 20 x 20 SOLD |
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Rites of Spring 2018 oil, collage, watercolor, and relief carving on wood 24 x 28 NFS |
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Omphalotus olearius 2018 oil, watercolor, and collage on wood 18 x 24 $500 |
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Thespesia grandiflora 2018 oil on wood 20 x 20 $300 |
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White 2016 oil, acrylic, pastel, and colored pencil on canvas 24 x 30 SOLD |
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Fairest 2017 digital painting prints available (inquire with gallery) |
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Black 2016 oil, acrylic, pastel, and colored pencil on canvas 24 x 30 SOLD |
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Cornered 2016 oil, acrylic, pastel, and colored pencil on canvas 24 x 30 SOLD |
