Dee Briggs

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Dee Briggs was born in 1968 in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. She received a Masters of Architecture degree from Yale University in 2002 with undergraduate studies in architecture from the City College of New York. Briggs began making art in 2002, exhibits nationally and teaches in the schools of art and architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. She lives and works in New York and Pittsburgh.

Briggs works mostly in steel and bronze at various scales and does much of the fabrication work her self. Her work is rooted in the exploration of chirality (3 dimensional handedness), which is pursued through the study of very basic principles of geometry and complex operations of symmetry.

I am interested in the resulting relationships of line and plane and the way in which each composition describes or implies space. Although my work often appears chaotic and whimsical it is, in fact, highly ordered

Education
1999 –2002 Master of Architecture Yale University
1990 –1997 Architecture History City College of New York

Exhibitions
2010 UnSmoke Systems Artspace – Braddock, PA
2010 Gestures, (invited group exhibit), The Mattress Factory – Pittsburgh, PA
2010 Cluster, (invited group exhibit), Pittsburgh Center for the Arts – Pittsburgh, PA
2009 The Carrie Furnace Project, (invited group exhibit), Carrie Furnace Pump House – Homestead, PA
2009 Fire Island Pines Biennial, (group juried exhibit), Fire Island Pines Art Project – Fire Island Pines, NY
2008 Cedarhurst International Sculpture Biennial, (group juried exhibit) Cedarhurst Center for the Arts – Mt. Vernon, IL
2007 Site Unseen, (invited group exhibit), Fe Gallery – Pittsburgh, PA
2007 DEE BRIGGS, (solo exhibit), Regina Miller Gallery – Pittsburgh, PA
2007 Flux 15, (invited group exhibit) – Pittsburgh, PA
2006 Exhibit of work, SVG Gallery – Nantucket, MA
2006 International Sculpture Biennale (group juried exhibit) – Palm Beach, FL
2005 Solo show of maquettes, Main Gallery, Mitchell Museum and Cedarhurst Center for the Arts – Mt. Vernon, IL
2003 Navy Pier Walk 2003 (group juried exhibit) – Chicago, IL

Publications/Reviews
2007 Art Review: CMU exhibits produce balance. By Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post Gazette October 17, 2007
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07290/825938-42.stm

Public Collections
2004-present Cedarhurst Center for the Arts – Mt. Vernon, IL – Lily
2006 Mitchell Museum – Mt. Vernon, IL – eight rings | one line

Corporate Collections
2009 US Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA – in progress

Residencies
2009 Bronx Charter School for the Arts, Bronx, NY – All School Artist in Residence