Claire Brandt: Mission Lascaux

Claire Brandt: Mission Lascaux

Site Specific Installation at The Red Poppy Art House


On Exhibition: November 7 –  January 1, 2011 (EXTENDED)

Reception: Thursday, December 8, 2011, 6-9pm

The Red Poppy Art House is excited to present Mission Lascaux, a site-specific installation by Claire Brandt exploring communication, embodiment, movement and the connection between all three. Mission Lascaux will be an installation of life-size cut-paper wild animals of the land, sea and air mid-movement on the gallery walls of the Red Poppy Art House. Visitors to the Poppy will be able to compare their own bodies to animals they would not usually have an opportunity to be close to—Orca whales and coyotes for example—giving them an opportunity to feel a physical connection with beings outside of usual urban experience. Brandt’s installation will develop over the course of November, culminating in a final closing reception on December 8, 2011, 6-9pm.

Brandt’s work has been shown in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, most recently at the David Brower Center in Berkeley. She maintains an active studio practice in San Francisco’s Infill Studios (of which she is a founding member). Brandt has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Headlands Center for the Arts: Open to the Elements.  She received her A.B. in English and American Literature from Harvard College in 1994 and an MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. She was raised in Bellingham & Tacoma, Washington.