Assistant Professor Benjamin Britton Solo Exhibition at Albany Museum of Art

Assistant Professor Benjamin Britton has a Solo Exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art in Albany, Georgia. Britton’s This Unfolding Idyll is now on view in the West Gallery of the Albany Museum of Art through February 23rd. 

“My work often appears at first to function like a dense and colorful abstract painting, but contains representations of nameable things and places,” Britton said. “I work with color and space to reflect the mechanisms of sensation in the body, to inspire a feeling of motion, and to continually reward the investigation of pictorial space.”

“The paintings in This Unfolding Idyll propose a loss of coherency between the knowledge of where and when our body is located in the landscape and the sensation of our location in space and time,” the Palo Alto, Calif. native said. “In brief, the paintings use this sensation to explore human relationships to ecological conditions.“Like emotional relationships with other humans, these relationships are often deeper and more complicated than one normally ends up accounting for, and are often revealed just at the moment our emotions get the best of us.”

Britton was born in 1976 in Palo Alto, CA and raised in the Pacific Northwest. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 1999 and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008. His work has been primarily shown in commercial galleries and alternative spaces in both New York and Los Angeles, as well as in the West Collection and the High Museum. He currently lives and works in Athens, GA, where he teaches drawing and painting at the Lamar Dodd School of Art.

Learn more about Britton’s exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art here.