About

Calvin Brett is a North Carolina–based interdisciplinary artist who transforms discarded materials into sculpture, installation, assemblage, painting, video, and public interventions. Drawing on natural systems, African and American folk traditions, repetition, and intuition, his work explores ecology, identity, labor, memory, and the cultural value of overlooked objects.

Brett trained at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the MIT Museum, Elsewhere Museum, Lump Gallery, and other venues, and is held in the permanent collection of the North Carolina Central University Art Museum. His residencies include Loghaven, Chautauqua Institution, Elsewhere Museum, and Perkins+Will Durham.

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