Visual Art

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Paintings • Mustached Ladies Series • Buff Women Series • Flying Fish Series • Drawings & Mixed Media • About

 Paintings

Mustached Ladies Series

The Mustached Ladies are a playful representation of gender nonconformity and draw attention to the artifice of femininity. Women, both real and as represented in art, have been valued for their status as decorative objects, and are often adorned as such. The mustache, paired with other symbols of femininity, whether traditional or alternative, pokes fun at both woman as decoration and painting of woman as decoration as decoration.

Buff Women Series

Born in response to the body positivity movement that often reproduces the same female objectification it attempts to criticize, the Buff Women celebrate female strength and gender nonconformity. While identified as women, their androgynous figures emphasize a continuity between the sexes, rather than a vision of men and women being discrete and “opposite,” and present an alternative vision of femininity. Some of the Buff Women display healed self-harm scars on top of the muscles that they show off, honoring recovery and resistance.

 Flying Fish Series

Mixed media on paper, fabric, and miscellaneous objects. Coming Soon.

 Drawings & Mixed Media

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.