"Carved directly in stone, my work combines traditional carving techniques with contemporary art ideas such as public interaction and appropriation. I knowingly engage with the concept of nonobjective and realistic art in a semiotic manner. For instance, I have carved handwritten words and phrases on spheres and cylinders (which I call Roliquery), abstracting them by reversing the image. When the viewer rolls the object in a bed of sand, the language is revealed. I also have employed designs based on ancient sculptures and old photographs in a similar manner, as well as imagery taken directly from nature. Viewers complete the creative process as they roll the Roliquery and create images in the sand. The carved stone is a tool in the creation of an image, rather than being simply a singular art object; it impresses the fluid and fugitive sand with an image from the fixed and permanent stone. Thus is achieved the intermingling of the traditional idea that art needs to be made timeless by the use of permanent materials such as stone with the contemporary notion of the ephemeral presence."

Brier received her Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from Indiana University, Bloomington and Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from Boston University. She is an assistant professor of fine art at Ivy Tech Community College, the founder and director of the Indiana Limestone Sculpture Symposium, and board member of the Stone Carvers Guild.