ABOUT
Toni Youngblood
Born in Atlanta, Georgia
Currently lives & works in Fresno, CA & Salt Lake City, UT
My first loves are art and design. I devoted my undergraduate study to art with painting concentration. In the San Francisco Bay Area, I studied drawing and oil painting with Maynard Dixon Stewart (son of renowned Utah artist, Le Conte Stewart) and Senior independent study with sculptor Fletcher Benton. Following graduation, I had the privilege of working with one of the premier private collections of Modern and Contemporary art in the U.S.---The Anderson Collection. I coordinated loans of art from this collection for museum exhibits all over the world, facilitated educational tours of the art collection, lectures by artists and art historians and artist demonstrations. I also worked on the team to design the registrar data base system, one of the earliest such digital record systems (https://anderson.stanford.edu/). I later earned an M.Arch (Master of Architecture) and for twenty-five years architecture was my occupation. You will now find me a full time artist and teacher. I've spent many years helping retired racing greyhounds find loving homes as pets and have loved some of my own. I'm happiest when I'm wearing my play clothes and glad to be fully engaged in my creative work.
"Inside this feminine and petite persona lies the soul of a painter of Bunyan-esque proportions. And 'lies' is not intended to invoke a 'sleeping giant'. Toni Youngblood has an alert intellect and a restless drive. Both are driven, sated only when putting paint on grounds.
Brilliant and sophisticated are two words which spring to mind regarding her love of color yet had someone not conceived the brush long ago, one imagines that 'finger painting' might have become her greatest pleasure in life.' The sensuality of paint and painting reveals a deeply ingrained knowledge of color and design - principles 'known' but now in the service of intuition, trusted more than her years of accumulated knowledge."
~Fred Lyman, Interior Designer, Artist
June 2013
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Education
1986 - 1990 - M.Arch, University of Washington
1976 - 1979 - B.A. - Painting, San Jose State University
1975 - 1976 A.A. St. Louis Community College
Press
2015 Sept 15 - 15 Bytes Utah's Art Magazine Geoff Wickhert: ‘Don’t back up!’— Cordell Taylor and Toni Youngblood at Howa Gallery.
2015 May 7 - 15 Bytes Utah's Art Magazine, Ann Poore: Toni Youngblood: Artist Profile.
2015 Feb 27 - 15 Bytes Utah's Art Magazine, Erhen Clarke: 50 Shades of Red: Horne Fine Art and Sprague Library Exhibits Examine the Color Red.
2012 Feb 17 - Evans Encaustics, Painting: Color Dominates.
2011 Oct 3 - The Post, Geoff Wikhert: Gallery Symbiosis: Toni Youngblood at Charley Hafen Jewelers and Gallery.
2011 Oct - At Bytes Utah's Art Magazine Sarah Barth-Jensen: Painting Your ABCs.
Exhibitions & Festivals
2019 Nov - Group Exhibit: Dias de los Muertos, Artes Americas - Fresno, CA.
2019 May - 300 Plates, Art Access - Salt Lake City, UT.
2018 - 2019 - Group Show, Adobe Campus - Group Lehi, UT.
2017 - Summer Group Show, Phillips Gallery - Salt Lake City, UT.
2017 - May - 300 Plates, Art Access - Salt Lake City, UT.
2016 Sept - November - Solo Exhibit: All the Moons, and talk, The Town Club - Salt Lake City, UT.
2016 May - Art Access - Salt Lake City, UT 300 Plates.
2015 Sept - Dual Exhibit: Toni Youngblood & Cordell Taylor ,Howa Gallery - Salt Lake City, UT.
2015 Jan-March - SEEING RED Artwork by the Wasatch Women's Art Collective - Sprague Branch Library Salt Lake City, UT.
2014 May-Jun - Utah Watercolor Society Spring Exhibition, The Attic at Academy Square, Provo, UT.
2013-2016 - Utah Artist Hands Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT.
2013 Jun-May - Utah Watercolor Society Spring
Exhibition, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Farmington, UT.
2013 - Two Star and Signature Member Utah Watercolor Society Exhibition, Michael Berry Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT.
2013 - 300 Plates, Art Access - Salt Lake City, UT.
2013 - Art Access Holiday Show, Salt Lake City, UT.
2012 - Utah Watercolor Society Fall Member Exhibition - Patrick Moore Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT.
2012 - Utah Watercolor Society Small Works Exhibition, Thatcher-Young Mansion
At the Center for the Arts, Logan, UT.
2012 Jun - Best In Show - Partnered with No More Homeless Pets - Alpine Art Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT.
2011 Oct - Solo Exhibit: Calligrafiti - Charley Hafen Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT.
2011 Jun- Best In Show - Partnered with No More Homeless Pets - Alpine Art Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT.
2011 May-Jun - Utah Watercolor Society Spring
Exhibition, 15th Street Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT.
Teaching
2013-Present - Salt Lake City School District Community Education - Acrylic Painting.
2008-Present - Private lessons in Drawing and Fundamentals of Watercolor Painting.
Publications
Museum for a Private Collection of Twentieth-Century American Art - Toni Youngblood, University of Washington, 1990, Thesis in partial fulfillment of the Master of Architecture.