Jan Brandt

Jan Brandt

Jan Brandt’s fiber installations and paintings have grown from the artist’s lifelong fascination with the natural world. Brandt‘s aim is to transform a gallery space with saturated colors and contrasting textures with the use of abstracted interpretations of botanical themes. She forms petals, vines, and leaves, oftentimes using thrifted and gifted materials. The abundantly bountiful sculptures and vines allow for a sense of surreal, childlike curiosity and wonder. Paintings of various sizes serve as specimens within this ecosystem, inviting closer observation. Their surfaces, marked with dimensional fabric paint, matte chalk paint, and glitter, reveal depth and form composed of layered line work. The adjacent colors are made to be mixed in the viewer’s eye, echoing the textural and colorful components of plant life. To develop this layered visual vocabulary, Brandt has drawn on a diverse history of floral motifs, including the carefully observed details in 18th century botanical drawings, the patterning of Jacobean tapestries, and the flat abstraction of Swedish and Japanese floral design.

Brandt has an extensive exhibition history across the United States, including NYC, Boston, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago and surrounding Illinois communities. She has an B.S. in Environmental Design and a BFA, both from Illinois State University. She has been published in many online and print forums. Brandt also has curated hundreds of artists throughout her career as a gallerist.

https://www.janbrandtartist.com

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