Brielle Sarkisian
About the Artist
Brielle Sarkisian (b. 2001) is a papermaker, printmaker, and teaching artist based in Vestal, New York, who holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She currently makes prints, as well as instructs and assists with workshops at Equinox Press printmaking studio in Endicott, New York, and sustains her papermaking practice with an at-home setup.
Brielle is particularly interested in the transformation of paper fibers, and how repetitive processes induce revisiting the emotions of her work from different angles. Her use of handmade paper additionally serves as a lightweight, ephemeral foundation for recording fleeting emotions. Heavily influenced by psychoanalysis in art practice, she allows her encounters with her surroundings to inspire her narrative works that explore the subconscious through interpersonal experience, memory, and reflection of the self.