Claire Brandt
Seattle, Washington
Matrilineal
oil on canvas, 24"x24", 2017, $1800
From my Bra Portrait Project, which centers on the conflict between personal, embodied experience and external cultural perception. Bras are borrowed from friends and family.
My work is about embodiment—what it feels like and what it means to be in a body. I make life-sized paintings of humans, animals, and objects. I want viewers to relate to and understand my depicted figures viscerally and culturally. Each person or animal I show is a whole being, not a creature defined by other viewpoints. This multiplicity of viewpoints is the energy in my work. The power of my work is in showing expressive bodies in a state of undeniable being.
Claire Brandt’s work has been shown in Seattle, Los Angeles and the Bay Area. She maintains studio a practice in Seattle’s Inscape Arts Center. Brandt has been awarded residencies at the Horse and Art Research Program in Hungary, Jentel Arts Foundation, the Red Poppy Art House, and the Vermont Studio Center. She was awarded a Creative Capacity Fund Grant in 2011. She received her A.B. in English and American Literature from Harvard College in 1994 and an MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. She was raised in Bellingham & Tacoma, Washington.
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Claire Brandt
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