Tanea Richardson is an

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artist known for her assemblages and sculptures. Richardson has exhibited her work at the

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, EFA Project Space of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), in

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. Richardson employs everyday materials like

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wires and cables to bind

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, the work a comment on traditional women’s labor and society's understanding of certain bodies through textiles and language.

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of the ''

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'' described her wall pieces at the

in 2008, "Initially they seem overly familiar, but they gradually become extremely particular and rather sinister." A graduate of the

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program in

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and

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, she attended

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’s

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from 2005.

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Richardson's Facebook page
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