Alison Bremner is a Tlingit artist born and raised in Juneau, Alaska, in the traditional homelands of the Tlingit people. Working in formline design, acrylic paint, wallpaper collage, digital drawings and found objects, Bremner tells contemporary stories that portray the current Tlingit experience - rejecting exotification while bringing visibility to the cultural nuances of daily Indigenous life.
Culture is not stagnant. Through contact and technological revolution, Tlingit culture constantly adapts, observes, and claims space in the world. Bremner’s practice is rooted in traditional formline design learned directly from Tsimshian masters David Albert Boxley and David Robert Boxley.
Tlingit art has always been a way of keeping history. Without setting out to, Bremner finds herself inside that continuum - depicting modern culture, events and stories through traditional formline design, carrying the practice of history-keeping forward into the contemporary moment.
Bremner’s work is held in the permanent collections of the British Museum (London), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Château-Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer (France), the Frye Art Museum (Seattle), the Burke Museum (Seattle), and the Hood Museum of Art (Dartmouth), among others. Notable collaborations include a national cup release with Starbucks, design consulting with PBS, and a merchandise collection for the Santa Fe Indian Market.
Alongside her commercial and exhibition practice, Bremner is committed to creating work that returns to community such as pieces made for potlatches, dance, and ceremony.
Alison Bremner was previously known professionally as Alison Marks.