Artist Profile

Brittany Kiertzner

Claremont, CA

Brittany Kiertzner is a mixed media and textile fine artist from Southern California. Kiertzner is an enrolled member of the St Regis Mohawk Tribe and studied fine art at California State University Fullerton. 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 and embroidery. She investigates themes of regeneration, authenticity and subversion of materials through synthesizing the past. Kiertzner has shown her mixed media and textile-based work extensively in solo and juried exhibitions in California since 2007. She is a member of the esteemed California Fibers group and Textile Arts Los Angeles. She manages her studio in Claremont, California.

Kiertzner's body of work is meant to embody the physicality of the Indigenous landscape while echoing the stories of those who have been subjected to societal negligence. In the intricate interplay of form and color, Kiertzner captures the emotional landscapes, through a fiber medium. Making connections through the intermingling of color and form. Kiertzner manages to bridge the gap between the personal and the collective.