Briana Babani is an award-winning artist and designer currently living and working in New York’s Hudson Valley. She grew up in the Midwest, received her BA in painting from Yale University, and then lived and worked in New York City’s fashion district before earning her Masters Degree in Interior Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design.

With a professional background spanning multiple disciplines — construction, architecture, interior design, and textiles — Babani draws upon a broad skill-set and employs a variety of mediums and tools.  Her work has been exhibited internationally and is part of numerous private collections.  Past stockists for her textiles include Barneys New York and ABC Carpet and Home.

Press: Fiber Art Now, Dwell Magazine, American Craft Magazine, Design Sponge, Apartment Therapy, Austin Home Magazine, Tribeza Magazine

Rooted in rigorous material exploration, my artistic practice toys with concepts of familiarity, functionality, and value.  Repetition and accumulation are recurring themes, as are juxtapositions between graphic and textural, playful and restrained, familiar and strange.  Ubiquity and whimsy have emerged as critical elements in my work.  I’m interested in examining the potency that, for me, is inherent in ubiquitous objects and materials, common items that possess the unique quality of being easily recognizable and readily understood, while simultaneously laden with history, memory, and narrative.  The playful nature of my work often enters the realm of the absurd, a peculiarity evident in the materials and the process as well as the final form.