About the Artist

Christine J. Brandt is a contemporary sculptor whose practice explores the intersections of nature, transformation, memory, and human experience. Working primarily in clay and horsehair, Brandt creates hand-built sculptural forms that draw from geological formations, marine ecosystems, organic structures, and the material processes of the natural world.

Born in Japan and raised across continents, Brandt’s understanding of place has been shaped by movement between cultures and environments. Exposure to diverse landscapes, traditions, and visual languages cultivated an enduring awareness of the ways in which people perceive, inhabit, and shape their surroundings. This sensitivity to place remains fundamental to her practice, informing both the imagery and material language of her work.

Brandt approaches clay as both a physical and conceptual medium. Through layering, carving, texturing, and repeated processes of building and transformation, she develops surfaces that suggest erosion, growth, sedimentation, crystallization, and decay. The addition of horsehair and other natural materials introduces an organic tension between structure and fragility, permanence and impermanence.