About the Art

Breger is a self-taught visual artist who works in multiple mediums including crayon, oil pastel, dry pastel, colored pencil, enamel paint, gouache, watercolor, acrylic paint, and photography. Using crayons and a cartoonish style to depict themes of sexuality or suffering, or painting photographs, she brings a new perspective to common images we may have otherwise not given a second thought. Her “Buff Women” and “Mustached Ladies” series challenge and parody sex-stereotypes and gender roles.

In her work Breger focuses on themes including,

• Criticism of the portrayal of women in classic literature, art history, and contemporary media.

• The experience of living in a sexualized and objectified body and the suffering that comes with it, as well as possibilities of resisting those processes.

• The aesthetics and politics of androgyny and gender nonconformity.

• Intimacy, sexuality, and sexual politics.