Benjamin Britton

Benjamin Britton, 2006,  Our Continual Attempts at Good Gracelessness, oil on canvas, 72 x 62”

Britton makes drawings on paper and paintings on canvas. They vary in size from inches up to eight feet and have dense, dynamic compositions. He paints evidence of a landscape or cultural setting and includes possibilities for multiple approaches to painting in the same scene. His work is about a world that appears to threaten itself.

His subjects are derived from personal strategies of picture-making including recollection of specific events, myths, stories, and landscapes. The drawings and paintings contain passages of illusionist rendering and abstract gesture. By manipulating a matrix of unnamed connective tissue between painted objects, he aims to create a motif that draws to it the sensorial sympathies of the viewer.