Daisy Youngblood


Daisy Youngblood is an American modern sculptor and ceramic artist.
She grew up in North Carolina and lives in New Mexico. She was a 2003 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program genius grant.

Life

From 1963 to 1966, Youngblood attended Virginia Commonwealth University.
Youngblood's most well-known sculptural work comprises heads and torsos of people and animals made in low-fired clay, combined with found objects. Some of the heads are explicitly representational portraits.
In 1999, her work appeared at McKee Gallery.
Youngblood has listed Jung and Buddhism as important theoretical influences, and has said that she is interested in "correlating worldwide religions and esoteric practices with the individual psyche."