Brittany Warren

I want to contort nature to transcend its tangible being so that humans empathize with the vast organic life fostering a different kind of soul. I want the viewer to experience consciousness in the world in a palpable and immersive manner. I often find and collect plants and dead bugs that I find intricate or frail. Looking at these objects closely to observe the complex details they hide in plain sight is a driving element in my work. I resonate with bark and branches specifically when they show signs of small bugs burrowing and living in them, rocks and stones that have an evident formation process, and the small but intricate compositions of butterflies and dragonflies that have delicate but powerful wings. Through these details, the passage of time becomes visible in the ever changing processes of nature.
A variety of soft and hard materials portray a range of textures and colors. I use found objects, many of which are organic things such as tree bark, feathers, and insects. My installation works explore how the viewer exists in the space with these organic forms. Repeated forms celebrate the seemingly calculated ways in which mathematics play a role in the creation of organic matter. The way in which the world and everything ...

BFA Sculpture, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2016-2021

College of Architecture, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2014-2016

Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX (summer program)
2013

High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA), Houston, TX
2010-2014

Remarque Print Exchange 2023, Remarque Print Workshop, Albuquerque, NM
2023

Gallerium Art Prize Exhibition 2022, Gallerium.art
2022

Remarque Print Exchange 2022, Remarque Print Workshop, Albuquerque, NM
2022

APX Annual Art and Photo Contest, Houston, TX
2021

Ex LIBRIS International Competition and Exhibition, Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX
2021

Explorations: University of Houston 2020 Sculpture BFA Exhibition, Houston, TX
2020

Memento Mori, Texas Art Asylum, Houston, TX
2018

Universal Split, Senior Show, HSPVA, Houston, TX
2014

You Always Know What to Say, HSPVA, Houston, TX
2014

Collections: Annual HSPVA Juried Works, Jung Center, Houston, TX
2013, 2014

Imprint, Annual Printmaking Show and Silent Auction, HSPVA, Houston, TX
2013, 2014

Summer Program Scholarship Juried Works, HSPVA, Houston, TX
2013

HSPVA Student Performances, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX
2013

High Art, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2013

10x5 Travelling Show, Interlochen Arts Academy, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of Arts, Design and Architecture Senior High, HSPVA, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
2013

Dia de Los Muertos, HSPVA, Houston, TX
2012