Tanea Richardson

Tanea Richardson is an American artist known for her assemblages and sculptures. Richardson has exhibited her work at the Studio [Museum in Harlem], EFA Project Space of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and at the Museum of [Contemporary African Diasporan Arts|Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA)], in Brooklyn, New York.
Richardson employs everyday materials like telecommunication wires and cables to bind fabric, the work a comment on traditional women’s labor and society's understanding of certain bodies through textiles and language. Roberta Smith of the New [York Times] described her wall pieces at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2008, "Initially they seem overly familiar, but they gradually become extremely particular and rather sinister."
A graduate of the Ryman Arts program in Los Angeles and Stanford University, she attended Yale University’s School of Art from 2005.