LaAndrea Deloyce is a 20 – something-year-old artist from Memphis, Tennessee. Growing up in the bluff city surrounded by color, culture, and a myriad of music gave LaAndrea a bright and saturated artistic palette to reference. She is the youngest of three girls and comes from a very artistically inclined and creative family.
LaAndrea studied fine art and community engagement at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; afterward, she was chosen as the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Programming and Community Engagement intern.
LaAndrea has studied painting, illustration, design, public art, writing, performance, and engaged in community outreach in densely populated and diverse cities. She has been involved in programs aiding the homeless population of Chicago and cares deeply about gun violence throughout the US. While she was in Harlem she learned intimately how to create vivid and community-centered programs within a museum institution.
Through her work in different communities across the nation, Deloyce has discovered that many of those suffering look just like her.
She hopes to give a voice to disenfranchised people through her artistic practice and serve as an active community member and liaison where ever life takes her. She is currently stationed in Memphis, TN where she continues to avidly paint and form connections with those around her.
Activism, representation, and social engagement in service of the black body are her main objectives when working. She strives to serve her community through multimedia expression. Deloyce’s work is also steeped in a deep understanding of physical pain, she has battled chronic illnesses throughout most of her adulthood which only encourages intersectionality in her work.
The combination of both the black and wounded body calls into question the cohabitant nature of these ideas for black Americans.
Present themes in her work include community, the war on black innocence, lineage, body as prison, and inheritance, which are all filtered through the distinct lens of her personal experience.
Her work is made in service of those affected by the African Diaspora, but it’s true purpose is to engage with everyone of every race and nationality so that we might all “see and understand” each other a little more honestly.
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