Daisy Youngblood (born 1945) is an American modern sculptor and

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artist. She grew up in

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and lives in

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. She was a 2003 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program genius grant.

Life

Youngblood was born in 1945 in Asheville, North Carolina. From 1963 to 1966, Youngblood attended

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. Youngblood's most well-known sculptural work comprises heads and torsos of people and animals made in low-fired clay, combined with found objects (sticks, teeth, hair). Some of the heads are explicitly representational portraits (such as her 1982 study of the

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Richard Bellamy). Youngblood has listed Jung and

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as important theoretical influences, and has said that she is interested in "correlating worldwide religions and esoteric practices with the individual psyche." In 1999, her work appeared at McKee Gallery. Her work is in the collection of the

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and the

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Review of her work
from

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, October 1999.
Images of her work
from the McKee Gallery (New York)
"Centaur with a mohawk head"
''Christies'', 1–2 July 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Youngblood, Daisy 1945 births Living people MacArthur Fellows American women sculptors American women ceramists American ceramists 20th-century American women artists 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century ceramists 21st-century American women artists 21st-century American sculptors 21st-century ceramists Sculptors from North Carolina Virginia Commonwealth University alumni

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