Bio
Maria Britton was born in Florence, SC, in 1982. She currently lives and works in Carrboro, NC. Her work has been included in exhibitions with the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Sumter County Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC; LABspace, Hillsdale, NY; Appalachian State, Boone, NC; Lump, Raleigh, NC; Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL; SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA; BAM, Brooklyn, NY; and Harbor Gallery, New York, NY, among others. She has participated in artist residencies through Lighthouse Works, Hambidge Center, Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Petrified Forest National Park, and Vermont Studio Center. 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.
Artist Statement
Spanning painting, sculpture, and textiles, my work explores notions of femininity and feminism, high and low forms of art making, and dreams and disasters. Through my art, I am interested in elevating and extending experiences of liminality. Influenced by clothing construction, bodily orifices, curtains, windows, and cycles in nature, my work is a material exploration of the immaterial.