Artist Conversation #3

Exhibition Information: Artist: Sienna Browne Exhibition: Multimedia Room 200 Media: Drawing and Painting Website: http://www.siennabrowneart.com Instagram: @siennabrowneart

About the Artist: Sienna Browne is a student at CSULB and she is pursing a BFA and hoping to get her teaching credential soon so she can teach students about art. She is very passionate about art and really wants to share her passion with others. Sienna told our class that a lot of her work deals with body dysmorphia and eating disorders because that is something that she went through for a while. However, she told our class that she is now done creating art about eating disorder and body dysmorphia and wants to create much happier art.

Formal Analysis: Lots of Sienna work contains many colors and all are very detailed. The painting I liked the most was her Ultraviolet Triptych because I never seen art like that and it was very cool to see. In her ultraviolet pieces there are lots of little details. There’s lots of little dots that cover the drawing and there’s a lot of different curvy lines. Even though the painting are not the same, they do look very similar. They have similar colors in them and all paintings have a bunch of little dots and small details. Overall all her paints are very fascinating but her ultraviolet work is memorizing.

Content Analysis: Sienna stated in our class that lots of her work portrays an eating disorder and dysmorphia because it was something she suffered from. She stated that there was a time were she would draw people and little food on their heads as a pun. She realized now that was her way of expressing what she was suffering through which I think is very interesting because she did not realize that at the time she drew these drawings but now she does. You can see in her art that she was going through a dark time because of the art itself and by the color she using throughout.

Synthesis/My Experience: Personally, I really liked Siennas discussion about her art. You can immediately see how passionate she is about her art and sharing her ideas. Her work is absolutely beautiful, you can tell she puts so much effort into each piece she makes. It’s very cool to see all her ideas and the backstory about her health problems reflect into different pieces.