Ayanna parker

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Artist Statement

I draw the things that I like. My favorite things to draw include:  food packaging, my favorite foods, fashion outfits, and dolls, basketballs, mermaids, flowers, hearts, and characters from my “Mr.Beavis and Butthead Book.” My favorite mediums are markers and colored pencils, but most of all black ballpoint ink pens. I enjoy using pieces of my own drawings to make collages. My art stands out because I use only a few colors, and I draw my doodles over and over again. When I make my art, I sometimes feel angry, but making art makes me feel happy. I hope that if you are looking at my art, you can feel happier too and that you can come talk to me. 

I am proud of my art career. I have been featured in exhibitions locally and nationally.  

I am doing fine.  


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Today is the Greatest, NIAD, Richmond, CA

Bloom, Framations Custom Framing and Art Gallery, St. Charles, MO

Directors Creativity Showcase, Missouri Mental Health Foundation & DMH, Jefferson City, MO

2022 Nourish Virtual Art Show, Art Saint Louis Virtual Showcase

2019 Beauty in Diversity: The Human Experience Through Their Eyes, Good Shepherd Art Center, Ferguson, MO

2018 Everything Blue II, Soulard Art Gallery, St. Louis MO

          Ceramics Exhibit, Lewis and Clark Branch Library, St. Louis MO

2017 Reclaim, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis MO

          Inside Insight, Good Shepherd Art Center, Ferguson MO


Ayanna’s Selected Portfolio