Bryn Gleason is a Queer, Female, Chicago-based, Visual Artist specializing in Intaglio Printmaking. After receiving her BFA from the University of Minnesota in 2013, she had her debut solo exhibition at the GreenPoint Gallery in New York and continues to exhibit across the United States, having four Solo Exhibitions in the last two years. Gleason demonstrates an impressive level of craftsmanship by not only practicing traditional copper etching, drawing and painting, but also incorporating unconventional materials such as raw animal hearts, old stained mattresses and pools of water in some of her mixed media pieces. She often explores themes such as grief, death, sleep paralysis, intimate traumas such as domestic violence, divorce, addiction and healing. Her process is often grueling and tedious, resulting in an overall esthetic that is dark, introspective and eerily captivating.
