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Kaz Brittenburg
Kaz Brittenburg is a Pennsylvania-born interdisciplinary artist. They received their AA in Fine Arts and an AAS in Computer Generated Animation and Digital Arts from Lehigh Carbon Community College and recently graduated from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania with a B.F.A in Studio Art and a B.F.A. in Animated Arts with a Art History minor.
They worked as studio technicians in the Sculpture and Photo Darkroom Studios at Kutztown and a gallery assistant at the Miller Gallery on campus. Their work draws on the processes of the human body and the mind, representing everyday objects in a way that feels both familiar and new in relation to the human body. Kaz’s work has been displayed in the Pennsylvania State Museum for the “Art of the State” Exhibition 2021 and recently had their own solo exhibiton at the newly established Glass Box Gallery.
Kaz has a unique experience as an artist. They are one of only 1-3% of the population that experiences a condition causing a lack of mental imagery and senses known as Aphantasia. They also have undergone emergency brain surgery on the week of Halloween in 2018. Both of these have recently become of much inspiration and interest to them and their work.
Photo by Insta: @byhkern
About Their Work
My work is shaped by Impermanence and imperfection, reflecting the unstable condition of being and memory. Decaying materials such as metal and wood are central to my creative practice.
Each piece begins as an idea, a conceptual sketch, that is pushed through making. Where construction turns to revision and revision to negotiation. Materials are placed in relation without hierarchy, each altering the behavior of the other through contact, color, and transformation