Show – Claire Brandt

Category: Show

SBL LaPop

States of Being Live at LaPop, Washington D.C.

Performances March 21 – 23

Reception
Friday, March 22, 2019, 7 – 10 pm

Performances with Volunteer Models
Thursday, March 21, 7 – 10 pm
Friday, March 22, 7 – 10 pm
Saturday, March 23, 1 – 4 pm

Workshop
Sunday, March 24, 1 – 4 pm

Exhibition
March 21 – April 28, 2019

Location
1847 Columbia Road NW, Washington D.C. 20009

Free and open to the public

The finished work will be on view at the LaPop Gallery through April 28, 2019

I am excited to present States of Being Live, at LaPop, a cultural salon, in Washington D.C., this March.

States of Being Live is a collaborative, community work of life-size-life-drawings that I will make with volunteer models. Each person will pose for about 20 minutes while I draw a whole body portrait of her/him/them. The portraits will layer on top of each other, creating an accumulation of figures and a whole, abstract drawing of the community in which individuals are visible. See the gallery below for images of previous SBL projects.

If you would like to try your hand at making your own life-size-life-drawing, On Sunday, March 24, I will hold a workshop for people interested trying this project.

To be scheduled to volunteer, use the button below to email me. Please indicate what day and time you’d like to be there. Each model session will take about 20 minutes.

volunteer to model

Previous States of Being Live Projects

Finished States of Being Live piece at SOIL Gallery

The Body: Power Meaning and Representation in Contemporary Art

Show: The Body

Washington State University Fine Arts Department, Gallery 2, Pullman WA

November 15, 2018 to January 10, 2019

Two paintings from my Surviving project are included in this juried show. The show is Curated by June T. Sanders and Ayanna Z. Nayo.

The paintings I submitted to this show relate to the theme “The Body: Power, Meaning & Representation in Contepmorary Art” because they are the story of a woman’s body—my body—that is not about beauty, sex, or motherhood. In other words, they represent a body and experience that is not part of the main, reductive narrative of womanhood in the United States.

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oil painting of self wearing pink sports bra, after MRI biopsies.

Show: Surviving

Retail Therapy

October 11 – November 24, 2018
Capitol Hill Art Walk Opening: October 11, 2018 5 – 8pm, event link>>

905 E. Pike Street, Seattle WA 98122

Please join us in October for a presentation of Claire Brandt’s recent paintings. Last year Brandt was diagnosed with Stage I Breast Cancer. From the beginning, she painted her experience. Through biopsies, surgery, chemo and radiation she painted self-portraits in order to process an intensely frightening bodily experience.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, at Retail Therapy we will have information on resources for support and screening for breast cancer.

See the work

“Going through cancer was the scariest experience of my life, especially in the beginning. I was lucky, mine was an early catch and I had good medical care. Making these self-portraits was a way for me to confront and feel what was happening to me. They are record of my experience that I hope helps people understand what breast cancer means to a body. And I hope they are helpful to others who might be facing something similar—without sugarcoating it, I want them to know that there is a way through.”

– Claire Brandt

States of Being Live at “Does Live Art…”

Thank you to everybody who came out and supported the Does Live Art Have to be Experienced Live performance series at SOIL over the Seattle Art Fair weekend. It was great to see all the visitors to the gallery and wonderful to meet the other artists involved in the performances. I especially want to thank all who volunteered to model. And, Morgan Cahn, who conceived, curated and organized this set of performances and the subsequent show is a superstar, and I am happy to know her better through the production of “Does Live Art…”.

This project was a performance of life-size-life-drawing at the SOIL Gallery in Seattle, WA during the Seattle Art Fair 2016. For three days, August 5, 6, and 7, I drew volunteer models. Each day I worked from 1pm to 4pm. Models were people I didn’t know who were visiting the gallery, other people involved in “Does Live Art…” and friends who came to participate in my project. Altogether, I drew 20 people into one canvas.

Usually getting ready for a show involves heavy stress to finish artwork on time. It was a refreshing change to begin a show with a blank piece of canvas. From installation on, being a part of “Does Live Art…” reminded me a bit of my college days in stage production—from the down-time camaraderie to the days of performance adrenaline, the similarity was distinct, and welcome. I’d forgotten how much fun—and how much work shows involve. The aftermath is great too, I was exhausted, but uniquely satisfied by the combination of working with people, making something, and feeling the energy of the Seattle Art Fair weekend.

See below for photos of the performance. And, scroll down below the gallery to see a timelapse video of the performance weekend at SOIL.

Photo of Performance by Chimera Dance Theater, Caw. photo: Anna Thoreau

The complete work, after 3 days of drawing volunteer models at SOIL Gallery, August 4 – 7, 2016.

Timelapse video of the entire Does Live Art Have to be Experienced Live performance series, August 4 – 7, 2016, at SOIL Gallery in Seattle.

Retail Therapy Show

Multiplicity

September 2016

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be showing my work at Retail Therapy this September!
Join me for the opening on during the Capitol Hill Art Walk, September 8, 2016.

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Claire Brandt’s paintings and drawings wrestle with tensions between singular and multiple—in both form and meaning. This takes shape in her work as either single figures that hold multiple meanings, or as works with an accumulation of figures. Multiplicity will feature her projects States of Being Live and Bra Portraits.

Exhibition: September 8 – 30, 2016
Opening: Thursday, September 8, 2016, 5 – 9pm, Capitol Hill Art Walk
Location: Retail Therapy, 905 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 98122
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