The World is Your Oyster

In collaboration with Studio Cultivate, Metropolitan presents "The World Is Your Oyster."

Life is Good was created to uplift and inspire the people of Charlotte using vibrant colors, images of strength and typography that reinforces that 'life is good' despite our hardships. This art style is a mixture of cubism, abstract collage, typography and pop art. The image of Mickey with boxing gloves fighting a beast like creature represents our fight as a city. And the image of a health care provider with the superman logo on its chest is a 'thank you' to all essential workers during the pandemic. If this Artwork brings hope, pride or gratitude to any individual viewer it serves its purpose as more than a piece of art.

Looking Towards Hope is a triptych of a tarot card pull that encapsulates the emotions behind the year 2021, as a reading. The Tower can be interpreted as a scary card, one of destruction and turmoil, but is depicted here rather with the all-seeing eye and a rose losing it's petals and the telltale lightning strike of change. In the middle, the artist paints herself as the Empress, a card representing creativity, fecundity and abundance. The final card is the Star, a hopeful message, looking towards good things ahead. Bree uses her signature Japanese pattern motifs and bright colors to relay a relevant, but inspiring message to the viewer, knowledgeable about the tarot or not.

Community was created for the 2019 Talking Walls Mural Festival. The painting depicts a brown trout, a fish commonly found in North Carolina waters and represents the idea of schooling or congregation within the environment and coming together to achieve a common goal, especially the given fact that it resides outside of a marketplace where many go to supplement their daily living essentials. The work also displays the blue flag iris which is also found in the state's wilderness and carries the same representation as the brown trout touting the ideas of community and unity.

This exclusive location inspired Plight of Hand. Rising into the skyline, the hand reaches for glory through the waters of life. Patched together are the colors of the fabric around us. Hidden above the floating world, this block of color and form is watching everything.

Like the streets of the city that run parallel but connect everyone on their path, Organized Chaos brings your eye (and your feet) through a maze of geometric shapes. Made to reflect the bustle and convergence of the Metropolitan, the piece adds activity and a pop of color to an already lively street. Subtle crowns sprinkled throughout reflect some of Charlotte’s most recognizable iconography.