JaBrea Patterson-West
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
JaBrea Patterson-West is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, where she received a BA in art history with a minor in French. While at USC she was mentored by Stephanie Barron, Senior Curator and Department Head of Modern Art at LACMA. On many occasions, her fellowship projects have intersected with her academic concerns. Her research on the landmark exhibition Two Centuries of Black American Art expands on the archival research she performed regarding Los Angeles’s Black artists’ networks, while her current work examines threads of community activism and other forms of political engagement by artists in the collection. JaBrea’s senior thesis calls for the centering of Black queer/feminine subjectivity in contemporary analysis of figurative paintings by marginalized artists. Her most recent writing appeared in Flash Art magazine, a creative essay titled “Rest as Revolution: The Speculative Nature of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Figurations.” Beginning in fall 2020, JaBrea will be working toward her PhD in Art History at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.
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