About Bry..
Bryanna Marie is consistently inspired by the little things our world gives us every day. She looks for subjects that tend to fade into the background of the daily hustle and bustle and brings their beauty into sharp focus with her miniature paintings.
Born and raised in Tucson, AZ; painting quickly became Bree’s most sought out passion. She made sure to immerse herself with artists she admired, absorbing whatever she could while on her self-taught journey. In 2014, Bree found herself painting a 3 by 3-inch canvas for a charity event, and quickly fell in love with the challenge of applying such details on to small canvases. After that first painting, she continued to push the boundaries, working with smaller and smaller canvases and experimenting with different materials. She now paints landscapes and portraits on coins with oils, smaller than 1 inch in diameter.
Bryanna’s paintings highlight the importance of traditional painting styles, while proving that tiny things can hold an abundance of wonder and beauty when we stop to notice them.
Her work has been featured on ABC News and Ripley’s Believe It or Not! and she continues to show her work around the United States as well as abroad.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Abend Gallery, ‘25 Cents’, Solo Show, Denver CO
2022 LA Art Show, ‘Mini Works’ Group Show, Los Angeles CA
2021 Abend Gallery, Annual Mini Works Show, Group Show, Denver CO
2019 Miniature Time Museum, ‘Pretty Penny’, Duo Show, Tucson AZ
2019 Haunted Hands, ‘Penny for your Thoughts’ Solo Show, Tucson AZ
COLLECTIONS
2020 Miniature Time Museum, Arizona
2019 Chateau d’Orquevaux Art Collection, France
2018 Works held in private collections in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Australia and Germany.
PUBLICATIONS
2019 ‘Penny Painter’, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Vol. 16, Page 146
2018 ‘Bryanna Marie’s Artwork’, Phoenix Voyager, October Issue
2016 ‘Bryanna Marie’ Infected By Art, Vol.3, pg. 90
MEDIA
2022 The Vale Magazine, ‘Bryanna Marie Transforms Everyday Coins Into Works of Art’
2021 Visual Flood, ‘Artist Bryanna Marie Uses Coins as Canvasses for Tiny Paintings’
2019 Oddity Central, ‘Talented Painter Turns Humble Pennies into Stunningly Detailed Artworks’
2019 Twisted Sifter, ‘Bry Marie Paints on Tiny Affordable Canvases’
2019 ABC Localish, ‘Meet the Penny Artist’ Season One, Ep. 38
2018 AOL In The Know, ‘Artist Paints Tiny Landscape onto Pennies’, Ep. 130
2018 The Irish News, ‘This woman Creates Tiny Paintings
GRANTS
2018 The Denis Dederot [A-i-R] Grant
RESIDENCIES
2019 Artist in Residence, Chateau d’Orquevaux, France
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Media
MEDIA
-Artist Paints Beautiful Tiny Landscapes onto Pennies- In The Know July 23, 2018 http://www.facebook.com/intheknow/creativebyAOL.videos/1130716107078841
-Penny Paintings with Bryanna Marie- Goodkin October 21st 2018 http:/goodkin.org/penny-paintings-with-bryanna-marie/
-Check out Bryanna Marie’s Artwork- Voyage Phoenix Magazine- October 30th 2018 http://www.voyagephoenix.com/interview/check-bryanna-maries-artwork/