Brianna Correa

Brianna Correa is a second generation Xicana, born and raised in Whittier California. Her mother has always encouraged her creative growth, as well as her father who used to paint drawings on picket signs in Mexico. She draws on anything she could get her hands on, from her school journals to her grandmother's bookkeeping notebooks.

Brianna has always been influenced by TV shows and figurines. TV shows that ranged from El Tigre, Teen Titans, DC, Adventure Time and Steven Universe. She was always drawn to the Homie Series and decal stickers of demon babies that you could get for 25 cents. 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. The use of bright colors in her artwork indicate emotion, mood and attitude. Her paintings are meant to embrace their size and their sexuality, hoping to help plus-size women feel empowered when looking at her artwork. Many are discouraged for being bigger but she wants them to feel confident in their skin.

 Watch Brianna’s video interview with ñ here.