Bio
Calvin Brett born 1990 Brooklyn, NY maintains his creative practice in Durham, NC. His work has been collected by North Carolina Central’s Art Museum. While a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, his work was exhibited in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and he’s exhibited at Marble’s Children Museum. Calvin has completed installations at Elsewhere Museum, The Fruit, The Carrack, The Scrap Exchange and Warehouse 21. He is a Loghaven Fellow and has completed residencies at Perkins + Will Durham and the Chautauqua Institution.
Artist Statement
Calvin Brett is a mixed media artist interested in creating novel experiences through experimenting with intuition, materials and visual rhythm. He’s primarily inspired by nature: how things are made of slight variations of repeated smaller things, and the process of nature intuitively creating perfect, new forms from its own debris. Working from the debris of society, he produces abstract, rhythm based, pseudo organic pieces, striving to raise the value of found materials through labor. He’s self taught and is generally more interested in aesthetics than concept, but if concept comes in, it’s on project by project basis and tends to be site and material specific.
