OLIVIA BRITT

Olivia was born in 1978 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She received her BA in painting from Dartmouth College in 2000 and her MFA in painting from the University of Washington in 2004. She was the recipient of a 2005 PONCHO Artist-in-Residence grant to learn bronze casting at Pratt Fine Arts Center. Her work has been published twice in New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Boston. She has exhibited her work at the Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Galleries of Dartmouth College, the Alliance for Visual Arts in New Hampshire, the Henry Art Gallery, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Soil Art Gallery, as well as Francine Seders Gallery.  She was a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago in the fall of 2005, and currently teaches at the Gage Academy in Seattle.

 

Artist's Statement:

Dissections: Transpose and Fuse


Olivia Britt’s paintings are self-contained entities that she structures with interlocking shapes and lines denoted by shifts in color and mass. The title of this exhibition refers to a particular action within her painting process whereby she excises a physical mass of paint and transposes it to another location within the painting.

The meaning of each painting is in the change and movement of paint over time. Materials are the physical embodiment of intent and expression, establishing a history of process unique to each painting. Britt’s work seeks to solidify experience, not to identify something known.

April 2006
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