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Vanessa Brieve

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Artist Statement

With the use of tactile natural and raw materials such as cotton muslin, canvas, thread (sewing), beeswax, and wood, my works investigate issues such as domesticity, family culture, memories, innate human behaviors, and femininity, though it is not overtly feminine.  The purpose in the use of handmade and natural raw materials is to establish feelings of nostalgia and provoke memory.  I prefer a minimalist, abstract approach over any other.  I am interested in process, hyper process, creating and recreating memories.   

Influences include Eva Hesse, Richard Tuttle (shaped and dyed canvases-early work), and Louise Bourgoise among many others.  My work evolves from who I am – a woman, a mother, and a daughter of a tailor and a seamstress.
 

Artist Biography

Vanessa Garcia Briedé was born in Toledo, Ohio and moved to Texas in the late 1970's where she grew up. In the spring of 2008, she acquired her B.F.A. in Painting at the University of Texas at San Antonio.  Before receiving her Bachelor of  Fine Arts, she was fortunate to have her first one-woman show, "Vessels", at Jump-Start in San Antonio, Texas during the summer of 2007. Then, another, titled "Seamstress, Mistress, Distress…" at Fiber Art Space in San Antonio, TX.   Subsequent shows followed with her most recent show "Arte Latina: Roar", last year, 2008, at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, TX.  Her shows have been featured in Glasstire.com, 210SA, and in "…might be good" at fluentcollab.org.  She is currently working on a print for the South Texas Artist Print Series for U.T.S.A.