Artists
Brittany Beiersdorf
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Brittany's work deals with her personal revelations when coming into
contact with, glimpsing visions of what the mystics would call
non-ordinary reality. Through the rawness and sincerity of the frames
captured by her pin-hole camera she seeks to draw the viewer into a
transcendental world where man experiences a communion with nature and
his surroundings and is transported to a higher plane of thought
governed by intuition and visceral responses to the mysterious workings
of existence in its rawest form. Through a more figurative and
romantic vision than we are used to seeing in today's art world, her
images stir strange emotions in us, as we are lured into this enchanted
world all things familiar seem so foreign, we are forced to tackle the
sense of mystery and serenity they envelop us in. Each image
represents a kind of epiphany, an initiation into a newly discovered
truth, and is in turn a tribute, a prayer to this new found union
amongst the dualities of nature.
Bio Brittany was born in Dallas, Texas. As a child she would travel with her mother to England where the rest of her family is. At the age of thirteen Brittany moved to the valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains, an area in northern Virginia. This place became the sanctuary and inspiration for Brittany. It was during her high school years where she became very interested in film-making as an artistic medium. The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston became the type of school she was looking for in a post high school experience. She later went on to get her Bachelor of Fine Art in photography at School of Visual Arts in New York City. Brittany has traveled to many places yet recalls the landscape of Virginia, as a metaphor to invoke the unknown. The experience of traveling has created a constant dialogue with surroundings as explorations leading to creation. The idea of cycle and returning to places, landscapes that are associated with mystery, have been the main influence of this collection of photographs. Brittany is based in New York City, she has a design collection under the name Les Descendants du Dragon and works from her studio in the West Village. |