Benjamin Britton: The Baffling Arrangement
“The paintings are about what it
looks like for me to think about feelings.”
Marcia Wood Gallery is excited to present “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.”
