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Benjamin Britton

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Associate Professor of Art
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Drawing and Painting
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Lamar Dodd School of Art, Main Art Building | Room S382
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bbritton@uga.edu
CV
CV 2023
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Research Focus

Benjamin Britton’s paintings use color and space to reflect the mechanisms of sensation in the body, to inspire a feeling of motion or displacement, and to invite the investigation of pictorial space. His research subjects are the representation of ecologies, planetary relations, human emotion, and inquiry into the nature of consciousness and abstraction. His work often proposes a loss of coherency between the knowledge of where and when the observing body is in the landscape and the sensation of its current place in space and time.

For Britton, these topics are visual, “I think we form the conscious present out of the sensed, residual, and formative. By painting how the apprehension of the present is constructed and perceived through layers of representation and abstraction and arranging them in a multitude of prepositional relationships there is an opportunity for a painting to show how the feeling of one’s location is almost always the feeling of multiple locations, among other possible revelatory moments. My work is to reveal a human figuring of ecological conditions; a relational position for humans within the planetary that cannot be calculated or understood through the frame of language or our current civilization. The paintings are about what it looks like for me to think about feelings.”

Benjamin Britton is a painter who was born in 1976 and grew up 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 New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Atlanta. His paintings are in the collections of the High Museum, the Ballinglen Museum of Fine Art, and the West Collection. Britton’s work has been reviewed in Art in America and the LA Times, among others. Britton has had solo shows at Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Santa Monica, and Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York, among others. He is a recipient of the Chiaro Award in painting, an Artist-in-Residence 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. He teaches painting at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA.

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Benjamin Britton opening at Marcia Wood Gallery Dec. 2, 7-9pm

Feb 12, 2019
Image: Bring a string bag, 2018, oil and acrylic on panel, 24x24"

Assistant Professor Benjamin Britton Solo Exhibition at Marcia Wood

Dec 24, 2018
Benjamin Britton, Keep it in mind, if not on the tongue, acrylic and oil on canvas

Assistant Professor Benjamin Britton Solo Exhibition at Albany Museum of Art

Feb 02, 2018
Both Towards and Away (detail), 2016, acrylic and oil on canvas, 45x42.5”

Britton Receives 2018 Headlands Chiaro Award

Jun 06, 2017

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Mar 21, 2017

Britton in "Opening Scene" Exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery

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  • Benjamin Britton, The velocity is temporarily everlasting, detail 1.
  • Benjamin Britton, The velocity is temporarily everlasting, 90 x 82.
  • Benjamin Britton, The arrival of a more favorable section of the parabola.
  • Benjamin Britton, More Splashy Radiation Please.
  • Benjamin Britton, interrupted by the dizzy cycle.
  • Benjamin Britton, Bring a string bag.
  • Benjamin Britton, Bring a string bag, detail.
  • Benjamin Britton, absorbent to the radiation of time.

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