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DESCRIPTION:Join us for an artist talk with Maria Britton! The conversation
  will take place in our galleries\, followed by a Q&A.\n\n \n\nAbout the A
 rtist\n\n \n\nMaria Britton (born 1982\, Florence\, SC) lives and works in
  Carrboro\, North Carolina. She has participated in artist residencies thr
 ough Lighthouse Works\, Hambidge Center\, Byrdcliffe Arts Colony\, Petrifi
 ed Forest National Park and Vermont Studio Center. Her recent group exhibi
 tions include the Weatherspoon Art Museum\, North Carolina Museum of Art\,
  Lump Gallery and Atlanta Contemporary. Her work will be featured in New A
 merican Paintings No. 178. Maria earned her bachelor's of fine arts from W
 inthrop University in Rock Hill\, South Carolina\, and her master's of fin
 e arts from UNC Chapel Hill. From 2015–20\, she co-directed an experimen
 tal art gallery called LOG. Britton has worked around 50 jobs as a housecl
 eaner\, educator\, stain and glaze dental technician\, direct support prof
 essional\, photo re-toucher\, hospital artist-in-residence working directl
 y with oncology patients\, and rideshare driver. \n\n \n\nSecond Sleep fea
 tures Britton’s sewn wall-based works called Draperies made from pattern
 ed bed sheets. Through her use of everyday materials including bed sheets\
 , she transforms objects typically on their way out the door into an oppor
 tunity to elevate and extend experiences of liminality. \n\n \n\nThe large
 -scale Draperies\, all made in 2024\, feature layers of ruffled and pleate
 d sheets sewn and painted in an improvisational manner. The Draperies comb
 ine the art historical term drapery\, depictions of folded fabrics\, with 
 Britton’s interest in everything curtains. The floral forms of the paper
  sculptures mimic her experience of living with hypermobility (overly flex
 ible joints) and hard-to-define aspects of having a connective tissue diso
 rder. Using a custom mix of pulped-up newspapers\, she slowly builds up th
 e regurgitated newsfeed into floral forms\, allowing each layer to dry com
 pletely before smoothing on another. The smaller paintings on bed sheets l
 ook into motifs repeated throughout her twenty years of painting on sheets
 \, including gesture\, positive and negative space\, cutouts\, fabric mani
 pulation and an inverted arch form suggestive of an eye or breast.
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Maria Britton
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