The ABSTRACT Artist

Artist Statement:

“I aspire to create a space of imagination through color, shapes, and texture thus evoking an emotional relationship between my artistic expression and the viewer. I hold a steadfast belief that

only through art can stories be captured without words. ”The Art of Life is The Life in Art”

Artist Bio:

I am Diana Shannon Young - A renowned multicultural - multi-dimensional artist working in Acrylic, pastel, and mixed media, residing in Riverside, CA. A working artist since the early 1980's there is no other life for I to desire as this gift of art completes me. As the past owner and curator of several California galleries fostering the careers of other artists alongside my own work - my lifelong love of Art is undeniable.

Watching my younger brother sketch and draw from an early age inspired me to do the same. Some formal training but primarily self-directed. I have always been on a ubiquitous journey to hone my artistic skills through workshops with master artists and other acclaimed visual creators using a myriad of materials and methods but relying on my own freeform expressions to create pieces uninhibited and unbound by structured discipline. Currently, In my art practice, my stylized figurative works imbue everyday life with joy, experiences, and relationships often encompassing abstracted female figures of professionalism and sisterhood while celebrating the uniqueness of the female form.

My florals dance with color, mood, and vibrancies, again creating a connection to you the viewer through spiritual and intimate composition while bursting with color. Through my abstracts, I strive to connect with the viewer mentally and emotionally communicating and sharing my expression of life as I see it through color, shape, and form. My art is a conversation and destination between you and I and as my creation resonates with you, the viewer our journey is complete.

Published in numerous magazines, included in several coffee table books alongside other influential artist of color, the recipient of awards, and commissioned on a national level by well-known organizations, corporations, celebrities, and academic institutions such as Morehouse School of Medicine, works on prominent television shows, solo, and group museum exhibitions, juried and curated into numerous shows including Art Week Miami/Art Basel, invited on numerous Art Panel discussions has all given validity to the longevity of my creations in the art world. More importantly, I am humbled and grateful to those passionate art enthusiasts in the United States and abroad who collect my art and find a peaceful, spiritual, and harmonious connection

Published in La Weekly Magazine, Ebony Magazine, Art 2000 Images Magazine, Cover of Journal to

the National Medical Association, Change That Narrative 200-page coffee table book of 75 most

influential African American Artist 2023, interviewed several times by Voyage LA Online Magazine

Included in 100 Black Artists You Should Know to be published by Overdue Recognition Art Gallery

2024 Bowie, MD. and more.

Artwork curated into Art Basel Week Miami at Spectrum Art Fair, We Are Who We Are Miami Art

Week, the San Diego Art Show, Art Expo New York, Las Vegas, Palm Springs. National Black Fine

Art Show, NY, NY. Harlem Fine Art Shows New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, DC., Martha’s Vineyard, Beverly Hills Art Show, Pan African Film and Art Festival. Chester County Studio Tour

Chester County, PA, The Art Vault Gallery, Lancaster, PA. Culture Black Fine Art Show, Columbus,

OH. Brentwood CA. Fine Art Fair.

Exhibitions Include Solo Exhibits at The Museum of African American Art Los Angeles, The Lyceum

Theater Museum San Diego. Group Museum Exhibitions include Bank One Center and Museum, Wilmington, DE, San Bernardino CA Museum of Art, Riverside CA Museum of Art alongside

Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, and More. Collector Coup Art Gallery, Off the Wall Art Gallery

Stockton, CA, Artistic Treasures Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Mackey Twins Art Gallery, NY. Aziz Art

Gallery, Los Angeles.

Selected for Commissions by The National Office of The March Of Dimes, Governor, and Maria Shriver’s Annual Women’s Conference, Black Enterprise Magazine, Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Weekend Conference, National Forum of Black Public Administrators, Pan-African Film and Art Festival, The National Medical Association, National office of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority,

Liberty Bank New Orleans, City of Dallas, TX.

Television features include The Housewives of the Potomac, Married to Medicine Los Angeles, David

Makes Man Series, Good Morning Los Angeles Interview, ABC News.

A partial list of collectors includes Vanessa Bell Calloway, Actor, Billy Dee Williams Actor, Artist and author, Alden McDonald Founder, CEO of Liberty Bank, New Orleans, Barbara Thomas past CEO of The National Black MBA Assoc., John and Earl Graves Sr .publishers of Black Enterprise Magazine, Wilma Wooten MD Chief Health Director City of San Diego, Ed Gordon, TV Host News commentator, and Analyst. Greg Mathis TV Host, Judge.

Diana Shannon Young

19510 Van Buren Blvd. Suite F3235

Riverside, CA 92508

(951) 536 2662

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www.dianashannonyoungfineart.com

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