About
At the age of six in a wooded clearing, I experienced a visual hallucination.
The form I saw had a detailed, fractal structure that, despite being still, suggested movement—similar to the way motion is implied in a photograph of water reflections or in the rhythmic designs of classical Greek sculptures.
As a child, I described it best by simply calling it a “fountain” and I made my first drawings in an attempt to share my experience.
The fountain vision remains a driving force in my art. I make paintings focused on memory, time, and transformation.
b. 1976
Sulphur,
Louisiana
BFA 2009
MFA 2011
California
College
of the Arts
Studio
San Francisco
Bay Area
California
Exhibitions
2013
“Overturn the Artiface”
SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2012
“Ten Revolutions around the Sun,
A Decade of the Tournesol Painting Award”
Headlands Center for the Arts,
Sausalito, CA
“People of Earth”
Luggage Store Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
2011
“American Summer Project”
Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts,
San Francisco CA
2010
“Lost”
Right Window at ATA, San Francisco
“Whistle While You Dixie”
Summer BF Press HQ,
San Francisco, CA
2009
“The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers: 2.5 ”
Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts,
San Francisco CA
“The Fountain of Giant Teardrops”
Silverman Gallery, San Francisco CA
Press
Artpractica: Mark Van Proyen
“Overturn the Artifice”
March 1, 2013 | San Francisco, CA.
http://www.artpractical.com/review/overturn_the_artifice/
SF Gate: Kenneth Baker
“Bright’s eccentricity, Crosby’s marginality”
July 20, 2012 | San Francisco, CA.
http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Bright-s-eccentricity-Crosby-s-marginality-3723760.php
SFMOMA Open Space: Cedar Sigo
“The Lanterns Along the Wall”
October 31, 2009 | San Francisco, CA
http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/10/the-lanterns-along-the-wall/
Art in America: Melissa Feldman
“Exhibition Reviews”
June/July, 2009 | San Francisco, CA
KQED Arts: Victoria Gannon
“The Fountain of Giant Teardrops” February 22,2009
San Francisco, CA
https://www.kqed.org/arts/24079/the_fountain_of_giant_teardrops/
San Francisco Chronicle: Kenneth Baker
“Light in the Forest”
February 7, 2009 | San Francisco, CA
https://www.sfgate.com/art/article/o-kiersey-paintings-at-triangle-3173479.php
Awards / Residencies
c i Care Award for Therapeutic Art Practice
Stanford Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA
https://stanfordhealthcare.org/for-patients-visitors/arts-program/art-for-health-patient-art-spotlight.html
The Tournesol Award for Painting
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
https://www.headlands.org/program/tournesol-award/
Brooks Fellowship Award for Established Artist Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
https://www.andersonranch.org/programs/artists-in-residence-program/