Brianna Martray

"Brianna is a working artist living in Pittsburgh, PA. She has been a full time artist since 2006, starting out as a painter before moving to sculptural work in 2009, and then on to drawing with graphite and charcoal in 2018. Brianna had a large scale installation piece of origami paper cranes at Denver International Airport in 2011. There is now a permanent installation of these cranes in Collegiate Peaks Bank in the Rino District in Denver. Brianna's work is driven by world-building. One of the greatest moments of freedom she found in her work was when she stopped painting and started sculpting -- for the first time she felt she wasn't creating an illusion of her vision, she was creating a tangible object that cast a shadow, bringing her imagined world to life. Her current work uses a wide range of materials including cast bronze, cast glass, cast resins, resin clay, thread, paper, cheese cloth, and wood."