ARTIST STATEMENT Brittany 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 bead work. She investigates themes of regeneration, authenticity and subversion of materials through synthesizing the past.
BIO Brittany Kiertzner is a mixed media and textile fine artist from Southern California. Kiertzner is an enrolled member of the St Regis Mohawk Tribe. She holds a Bachelors of fine art from California State University Fullerton and is completing her graduate degree from Harvard Graduate Extension School. Kiertzner has shown her mixed media and textile-based work extensively in solo and juried exhibitions in California since 2007. She resides in Beaumont and manages her studio in Claremont, California.
