BRITTANY KIERTZNER
"My work discusses social pressures that catalyze disintegration and impermanence
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CREDENTIALS
1st Place in the Art Renewal Center scholarship competition.
BFA Merit Scholarship, CSUF, CA
SMMoA, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, “Incognito”
Brittany Kiertzner is a mixed media and textile fine artist from Southern California. Kiertzner is an enrolled member of the St Regis Mohawk Tribe and studied fine art at California State University Fullerton. Kiertzner explores critical materials that reframe her personal history into a contemporary context. Through a dynamic interplay of woven and stitched threads, her work is influenced by traditional Mohawk Iroquois splint basket making, embroidery and raised beadwork. She investigates themes of regeneration, authenticity and subversion of materials through synthesizing the past. Kiertzner has shown her mixed media and textile-based work extensively in solo and juried exhibitions in California since 2007. Her work in the permanent collection at Sasse Museum of Art. She manages her studio in Claremont, California.
