Visiting Artist Briana Palmer: Installation Artist – Maker of Fact, Fiction, and the Absurd
The Visual Arts Department presents
Briana Palmer, Visiting Artist
"Installation Artist – Maker of Fact, Fiction, and the Absurd"
Briana Palmer is currently an assistant professor in the School of the Arts at McMaster University where she teaches a variety of studio art courses with a focus on printmaking. Her studio practices encompass printmaking, sculpture and instillation in which her work reflects biomorphic surrealism, creating a world that floats between a space we understand and the intangible. Her research interests include finding alternative practices to traditional materials that have a sustainable footprint in health and the environment.
Briana received her BFA in 2000 from the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary; she received her MFA in 2003 from the University of Alberta in Edmonton. She has had the privilege of exhibiting her work internationally in Europe, USA and Canada. Her prints are in the archival collections at the Alberta Foundations of the Arts (Canada), Southern Graphics Print Council (USA), and the University of Alberta (Canada).
A few of her career highlights include an Artist In Residence, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, India. Where she collaborated with two print artists commissioned by the Government of India to create three collaborative edition prints for the collection at Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, India.
Pavilion Lake Research Project; artist in residence with scientific research teams from the Department of Earth Sciences at McMaster Univeristy, other Canadian and International Universities, NASA, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The groups are conducting research of the microbialite formations under the Pavilion Lake BC.
