The Artist is Present
Brittany Markert is a performance and visual artist who excavates emotional truths through imagery and visual art. Rooted in analog photography and the haunting aesthetics of the surrealist art movement, her work is deeply psychological, feminine, mythic, and spiritual. Beyond the formal beauty of her prints is a more intimate current guiding us through the work : the feelings and voice of a woman who has alchemized her own pain into visual ritual, who dares to name what most only feel in silence.
She’s known for her long-term project In Rooms, a body of work spanning a decade that explores the emotional architecture of grief, betrayal, self-reclamation, and feminine authorship. Her photographs often feature herself, not as subject for desire, but as a living archetype, moving in performance art through stages of collapse, concealment, revelation, and quiet power. Through veils, mirrors, lace, and shadow, Brittany builds emotional altars that ask the viewer to slow down, become present, and feel what lies deep within.
If you’ve ever seen her work in passing and paused, it’s likely because something in it recognized you. Her work doesn’t perform, it invites you in. In Rooms holds space for transformation, for depth of feeling, and a kind of solace from the facades and chaos around us.
Outside of the work, Brittany is someone who craves depth in a world addicted to surfaces and shallow interactions. She’s sensitive, honest, endlessly reflective, and unapologetically direct and intuitive with her observations. She loves classical music, coffee, staring longingly out tall windows, decaying architecture, and her cat familiars.
Brittany is committed to growth, evolution, and living with integrity. She does not consider her artistic life a job or a path to recognition, but a vocation and offering for others. She is sober and moves slowly. She daydreams often, practices yoga, and is rarely out past 9 p.m. She is not afraid of the dark, of intense conversation, or of discomfort, but she will gently retreat when her introverted nature calls her home.
Brittany is a mirror. Be careful what you see.
xo
