Visual Art – Kansas City

Brianna Nechelle uses artwork as a tool for self reflection. As a KU graduate student and aspiring art therapist, she studies emotional, mental and physical reactions to love, trauma and recovery and how that can be expressed through texture and color arrangements. Her brush strokes are bold and intentional to create layers of contrasting colors to explore human anatomy and emotion. Weaved throughout her paintings are figures posed to portray an experience the viewer can identify. She finds there are endless possibilities to this expression and often experiments with mix mediums such as glass, charcoal, plaster for further depth and interpretation. She believes each art tool is critical to the emotion it portrays. Brushes, pallet knifes ,or at times , her own hands are used to create the shape and or texture for her artwork. For five years she has traveled and painted under her brand “Lost Liberty,” for non-profit organizations, art shows and events throughout the mid-western region. The repetitive insignia of the two L's creating a box like shape represents this mantra and is the trademark of the brand. ​ She says the title of her brand testifies to her passion for the arts: “As an artist, we are often judged by fine guidelines which can be constraint on your liberty as a creative. I found my freedom when I was making “unconventional” art during a very confusing and traumatic phase in my life where I experienced much loss. I was healing and grieving through my art and my abstract expressionist style was birthed. I then realized how much I gained in loss with the power of perspective and authenticity.”