Cara Marie Young

Cara Marie Young is an artist from Atlanta, Georgia based in Detroit, Michigan. Her current interdisciplinary painting practice is an evolving response to the human experience, concerned with issues of race in the American landscape and the reality of life in her own skin. The artist seeks to engage with the community around her, recently exhibiting work at the 101st Michigan House of Representatives in 2022, Olayami Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum and The Feminist Art Museum in 2020. She was an exhibiting artist and speaker in the Race Forward Facing Race Conference in Fall 2016 at the Hilton Atlanta and a Dean’s Diversity Fellow at Wayne State University from 2019-21. The artist has recently completed her MFA at Wayne State University and is seeking to engage with new opportunities in the future.

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A Burning Staircase

2023
Lemon juice, modeling paste, acrylic, gold foil, gold thread, eyeshadow and recycled text on canvas
24 in x 30 in