Pip Brant

@brantpip

“Materials often play as part of the semiotics of an image.  Found pigments have meaning and in this series “Hasenblut” I’ve used a blend of dehydrated gum Arabic and rabbit blood to discover what the image and materials can convey.  The blood has inherent properties and migrating colors to capture time and nature.  It starts out as a lovely scarlet and then ages to a dark maroon within a week or two.  Lucy was an icon that literally married Cuba and the US.  Joining the two countries metaphorically in blood.” – Pip Brant  

#PipBrant uses a wide variety of materials that best address absurd developments or situations with an element of interruption. This includes live animals, bad music, fibers, installation, and painting. Brant has degrees from the University of Montana (BFA) and the University of Wyoming (MFA). She grew up on the western Plains Indian reservations (Sioux, Cheyenne, Assiniboine) where the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Public Health employed her family. She has taught, herded goats, and produced art in Montana, Wyoming, London, and Missouri before moving to Florida in 1999. She has exhibited in Denmark, Hungary, Ireland, and London as well as nationally, including venues in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, as well as the western states. She has been exhibiting in the Basel Art Fair affiliated Ping Pong exhibitions that feature artists from Switzerland/LA/Miami. Brant was an associate professor at FIU, teaching painting and fibers. In 2003, she won the South Florida Cultural Consortium for Visual and Media arts.