Brittany Canales (b. 1999, El Paso, Texas) currently lives and works in Austin, Texas. Canales is a recent graduate of The University of Texas at Austin with a BFA in Visual Art Studies and a minor in Arts Management and Administration. She has exhibited her work at The Holy Art Gallery in London (2023), The El Paso International Museum of Art (2017), and has a public mural at El Dorado High School in El Paso, Texas. Her work was included in the 2021 UT Art and Art History Research Week Exhibition and the 2021 UT Senior Art Exhibition. Canales is currently the Executive Art Director and Head of Operations for Renowned Magazine. Canales’s artwork, educational work and publications can be found at her artist website www.brittanycanales.com and Renowned Magazine's Instagram @itsrenowned.
Artist Statement: Brittany Canales uses printmaking, drawing, painting, sculptural, and digital processes to visually describe her internal reflections and their relation to the outside world—typically through surrealist or illustrative imagery. The illustrative visuals in her work function as symbols for underlying ideas and emotions expressed (sometimes indirectly) in the work. Produced during her current life-altering era, her most recent body of work encapsulates the deeply personal, transformative feelings and conditions that have resulted from this shared moment of change. This work creates a surrealistic universe that is visually, experientially, and symbolically performative. Connected through shared imagery, Canales’s imaginative spaces create a mysterious, subtle surrealism that reinforces an artist’s ability to express narratives in unorthodox and obscured ways.
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Contact:
email: brittanyanne.canales@gmail.com
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