Incredibly
detailed, lifelike portraits, Brandi Marie Little captures personality with a
bit of wit, nostalgia, and history is her amazing paintings! Her work transports
the viewer to a different time and evokes emotion with her monochromatic
vintage portraits. We loves her work at first sight and know you will too!
Brandi
Marie Little is a visual artist living and working in historic Savannah,
Georgia. Primarily a painter, she also works with fiber, collage, and
sculpture. Brandi was first introduced to oil painting as a small child by her
paternal grandmother while spending summers with her in Louisiana. She
considers collecting and preserving the past a crucial part of her process.
When she is not making art, she spends her time restoring her over
one-hundred-year-old Victorian house with her husband, two pet rabbits, and one
special needs chihuahua named Frida.
Brandi
eloquently shares more about her work:
My current work focuses on
nostalgia, loss, and mourning; which I investigate through the process of
collecting discarded vintage photo booth and school portraits from estate sales
and antique shops, and translating them into large scale oil paintings. I
consider myself somewhat of a caretaker of these discarded mementos and use
this as a tool to explore my own fixation on loss, death, my rapidly dwindling
extended family, and lack of concrete ancestral history. My current work is
definitely a response to losing several close family members at a young age, as
well as losing the land my family grew up on and, therefore, much of my
connection to my own past. Recently, I have found myself detaching from what one
might guess are the narratives of these abandoned images and treating them more
like abstract paintings that I can project my feelings through, like sending
ghosts forward with messages to those still on earth. As Louise Bourgeois said,
“Nostalgia is a form of mourning.” But what are we mourning? When those who
loved the dead are gone, what still remains?
You definitely want to
see more of her amazing work! Find Brandi online www.brandimarielittle.com and on Instagram @brandimarielittle
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