Brianna Correa as an artist

In our first episode, Brianna Correa sits down with ñ to talk about her how she started making art and how her work has evolved throughout her career as an art student. We discuss the shift between painting, sculpture, and installation.

Brianna Correa is a second generation Xicana, born and raised in Whittier California. She started making sketches and paintings of beautiful curvaceous women for a little pocket change but became aware that these small paintings were bringing awareness to a community of women/people who are underrepresented in the media. Brianna later continued making these paintings to help represent women who have not been considered beautiful by industry standards and she now looks for ways to praise them, emphasizing the idea that one's perception of “beauty” is different from others.