Brianna Wray is a visual artist, musician, vlogger, videographer, a writer and storyteller. She is the resident photographer for the Walla Walla Foundry. She grew up in a military town in Tennessee until her parents divorced. At that point Brianna and her mother moved to Orlando, Florida. It was there her journey to visual arts began with an introduction to graffiti and acrylic paintings with a guerilla-style artist collective known as the B-Side Artists. They created paintings in full view of club audiences, during concerts, or outside face to face with collectors and haters alike. Her subject was nature, especially landscapes with trees.
Having always had a penchant for writing (won a contest in kindergarten), Brianna fell in with a bad crowd. The Orlando Poetry circuit. Will’s Pub for Speakeasy, Stardust for Broken Speech, Austin for Open Words. Eventually performance poetry and poetry slams took her to Austin, Texas for the National Poetry Slam. Upon relocating to Seattle in 2009, Brianna earned a Bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts from the University of Washington. There she discovered a love for printmaking, mixed media assemblage, videography, and bookmaking as a means of enriching her other art interests.
Brianna’s current works are cumulative. There are traces of graffiti and landscapes, as well as poetry and abstraction. As in video, each still image functions as a part of a much larger story.