Marcie Rose Brewer

Marcie Brewer is a multi-media artist and citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She received an MFA in Art Studio from the University of New Mexico, creating work that encompasses lens-based media, sculpture, and installation, which has been shown in Native and feminist centered exhibitions. Her work begins through collecting and saving remnants from a vanishing petroleum based economy. Packaging materials that are originally designed to protect something more valuable are re-conceptualized as agents of cultural meaning. Through this appropriation, she addresses personal issues of identity, cultural loss, and displacement with the use of humor and notions of the absurd. Wading through the seemingly endless void of consumption, she uses shapes, colors, and patterns as symbolic guides to work through ideas of resistance, resilience, and Survivance regarding Cherokee culture. By interacting with and shifting the function of everyday objects into contemporary metaphors, she creates a new language that connects to traditional Cherokee art forms, which manifest through resonances of consumer culture that engulfs us all.