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Artist Talk by Benjamin Britton
January 17 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Benjamin Britton will give an artist’s talk about his exhibition “this baffling arrangement” Saturday January 17, 11 pm – 12 pm.
The exhibition runs through January 24.
Marcia Wood Gallery presents “this baffling arrangement” by Benjamin Britton. This will be Britton’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery.
In Benjamin Britton’s new paintings, abstract figures seem to float and interact with one another, as if they’re sending and receiving signals across time and space. Waves of color suggest movement – sometimes gathering together, sometimes scattering apart. Feelings appear without a clear source or context, like emotions drifting free. Britton draws inspiration from the ways animals, plants, and humans are connected in our consciousness, and he’s interested in making the simple drive to live visible. His work embraces the quirky, the emotional, the physical, the sensory, and the playful. With color, shape, and surface, Britton makes abstract paintings that reflect how we actually experience the world right now. As he puts it; “The paintings are about what it looks like for me to think about feelings.”
Benjamin Britton was born in Palo Alto, CA, in 1976, and raised in the Pacific Northwest. He received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY in 1999 and his MFA in painting from UCLA in 2008. His work has been shown primarily in commercial galleries and alternative spaces in New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, and is included in the collections of the High Museum in Atlanta, GA and the West Collection in Oaks, PA. Britton’s work has been reviewed in Art in America and the LA Times, among others, and included in New American Paintings magazine. He has had solo shows at Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Santa Monica, and Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York. He is a recipient of the Chiaro Award in painting and an Artist-in-Residence awardee at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA, a recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, Ireland, and a J.B. Blunk Residency from the Lucid Art Foundation in Inverness, CA. Britton’s work is represented by Marcia Wood Gallery. He teaches drawing and painting at the Lamar Dodd School of Art and is an assistant professor at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA.
