Brianna Harlan
occupied stillness
completely alone package advertisement
beauty-covered glasses
Coroplast
18” x 24”
2020
Statement:
I am a multi-disciplinary artist working primarily with installation, portrait, digital manipulation, intervention, works on paper, and photography. My work is driven by by the need to confront how systems violently condition our relational identity, and how that influences quality of life, health, and habits. My work serves as a creative intervention. I work conceptually, often in community, interactive projects. I am interested in exploring narrative through everyday objects and the use of interactive elements to activate the static and familiar. The worksoccupied stillness,completely alone package ad, andbeauty-covered glassesare prompts instead of the typical yard sign declaration– respectively encouraging mindfulness with self, reflection on one’s place in society, and questioning the energy behind our perspectives.
Bio:
Brianna Harlan is a multidisciplinary artist and organizer. She works conceptually in multiform, socially engaged art. Her work is driven by the need to confront how systems violently condition our relational identity, and how that influences quality of life, health, and habits. Brianna is a Kentucky Foundation for Women Fire Starter awardee. Her most recent residencies were at Oxbow School of Art and Artists’ Residency and Materia Abierta in Mexico City. Current projects include an AR Monument to Breonna Taylor and the #SayHerName Movement, made in collaboration with 4th Wall, 21c Museum Hotels, and Breonna’s family and an equity in arts initiative in Louisville, KY that was featured in ARTNews. Harlan also leads community experiences and presentations, having been a speaker at For Freedoms and the Kentucky ACLU events. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Art and Social Action at Queens College, CUNY and making her New York gallery debut with a solo exhibition:Black Love Blooms: New York Nookin September 2020.
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