ARTIST STATEMENT

Many of my creative works are made for an intimate audience, they are full-body experiences and little gifts, only experienced by whoever happened to be there. These playful explorations - 8 hours of digging snow tunnels, detailed paper dolls of friends family, painted origami ornaments, scavenger hunts - feed and inform my studio practice.

I find the most creative freedom when I have constraints. I am most drawn to mining the honest moments of my life, the moments and challenges that feel both uniquely personal and quite mundane. I can’t very honestly make work about global warming, or stolen land or corrupt governments, all subjects I engage with and care deeply about. But I can make something about that one phone call with my mom. I can make something about the sensation of keeping it together in the midst of postpartum anxiety. I can make something about the way the light hits my dog’s fur when he’s sitting on that velvet chair. My hope is that these bits of honesty, these small vulnerabilities reveal something larger about our shared human existence. I want my work to spark empathy and recognition; to provide a mirror for us to examine ourselves; to understand ourselves and each other just a little bit more. 

BIOGRAPHY

Britt is a choreographer, performer and visual artist based in Berlin, where she works across mediums and techniques.

Britt received a BFA in Dance from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2006 and studied contemporary painting 2019 - 2021, in the full-time KOH atelier at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, WA. She was a 2021 participant in the Studio Program at the Berlin Art Institute.

Her performances blend movement, contemporary theater and visual design to explore the messy absurdities and beauty of our shared human experiences. She values emotional risks, the edges of our physical capabilities and vulnerability, while inviting playfulness and curiosity. Recently, she is especially interested in “non-greatness” and what might be revealed if we allow the discarded, unpolished and failed attempts at art-making to be a more central part of our work. 

Britt’s work has been supported by creative residencies including Flight Deck, Cornish Arts Incubator and Velocity Dance Center and her performance works have been presented in Seattle at Velocity Dance Center, On the Boards, Behind the Pink Door, NEPO 5K and at the Joe Goode Annex in San Francisco. She has performed locally, nationally and internationally on stages, in galleries and historic buildings, and on the sides of skyscrapers with artists and companies including Project Bandaloop, Joe Goode Performance Group, Flyaway Productions, KT Niehoff, zoe | juniper, Shannon Stewart, Coleman Pester, Anna Conner, Alice Gosti, Kim Lusk and Kaitlin McCarthy among many others.

Awards include:
2021 Best of Gage “Portrait”, 2021 Best of Gage “Staff Pick”, 2018 Dance Crush for Choreography and Performance.

Interested in purchasing artwork? Please email Britt for any questions regarding commissions or art sales.

brittanikarhoff@gmail.com