Tiffany LaTrice
East Point, GA
Tiffany LaTrice is an American international visual artist based in Atlanta, GA with a focus on representational portraiture portraying the black body at rest.
Messageb. 1988 | Tiffany LaTrice is an international artist & arts administrator from Chattanooga, TN. Her vibrant self portraits seek to liberate and preserve the black female body. Her work redirects the public gaze and historical negligence of the black female body by using herself as her subject, in open, fluid positions, to show black women at rest in direct opposition to capitalism and exploitation. Tiffany LaTrice has exhibited work in museums, galleries and alternative spaces throughout the United States and abroad. She is a self-taught artist, receiving her Bachelors in International Relations with a focus in Gender Studies at the University of Southern California and Masters in Women's History at Sarah Lawrence College.
Her exhibition history includes Cultural Arts Council in Douglasville, Mason Fine Art, Equity Gallery, La Maison D’Art, and the African American Museum in Chattanooga, TN. Her artwork has appeared on the Food Network and in publications such as Zora Magazine and Sarah Lawrence’s annual poetry collection, Dark Phrases. In the public art sector, LaTrice has worked with the City of Atlanta’s Office of Planning to build an interactive art installation for the community of Cascade in partnership with C4 Atlanta.
Tiffany LaTrice is the Founder and Executive Director of TILA Studios. LaTrice has been featured in the New York Times, Huffington Post, Forbes, and NPR for her work and impact in the art industry and empowering black women artists. She is the recipient of the 2021 Dream Catchers Awards presented by the Urban League, 2020 Martha Richards Visionary Leadership Award, 2019 Arts Innovation Luminary Award, 2018 Artist Entrepreneur of the Year Award by C4 Atlanta and was a finalist for the Center for Civic Innovation #GoodTrouble Award. TILA Studios is the recipient of the 2018 Best of Atlanta Award for Atlanta Magazine and the Atlanta Tribune.
Statement
Her vibrant self portraits seek to liberate and preserve the black female body. Her work redirects the public gaze and historical negligence of the black female body by using herself as her subject, in open, fluid positions, to show black women at rest. In her representational paintings, the gazes are direct, the poses evoke power and authority and the color palette reflects joy, ownership and self-indulgence. Her work combats our collective assumption that success must be maintained through hyper-productivity which often places the black women's bodies in a constant state of duress. Her work seeks to challenge capitalist culture and the long history of abuse black women have endured at the hands of the government, medical experiments and carelessness, family trauma, and abusive labor economy. She works in watercolor and water based oil paints - opting for a balance of fluidity and control. She is inspired by the work of Audre Lorde and lives by the quote: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
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