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Bio
Maria Britton is an artist making abstract paintings, sculptures, and textile-based works with a focus on repurposing two everyday materials: bedsheets and newspaper. Her distinctive bodies of work touch on themes of memory, dreams, accumulation, labor, gender, and value. Maria has participated in artist residencies through Lighthouse Works, Hambidge Center, Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Petrified Forest National Park, and Vermont Studio Center. Her artwork has been exhibited at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, Lump Gallery, and Atlanta Contemporary, among others. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings. Maria earned her BFA from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC, and her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has written for Burnaway and The Coastal Post. From 2015-2020, she co-directed an experimental art gallery called LOG. Since 1999, Maria has worked around 50 odd jobs as a housecleaner, educator, stain and glaze dental technician, direct support professional, photo re-toucher, hospital artist-in-residence working directly with oncology patients, and more. Maria Britton (b. 1982) is currently based in Carrboro, NC.
Artist Statement
Through my use of everyday materials including used bedsheets and newspapers, I transform materials typically on their way out the door into paintings, sculptures, and textile-based works called Draperies. Feminism informs and supports my process and the materials and techniques I choose to work with. Influenced by clothing construction, the human body, curtains, windows, flowers, and cycles in nature, my work is a material exploration of the immaterial. My distinctive bodies of work touch on themes of memory, dreams, accumulation, labor, gender, and value.
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