Collapsible City/Worldscape II
Val Britton was born in Livingston, New Jersey. She received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from California College of the Arts. Britton creates immersive, collaged works on paper and site-specific installations that explore physical and psychological spaces. Her fragmented, exploded landscapes draw on the language of maps to explore memory, imagination, and the possibilities of abstraction. A recipient of the Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant and the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship, she has participated in residencies including the Affiliate Program at Headlands Center for the Arts, Recology, Millay Colony for the Arts, and Ucross. She has exhibited her work nationally including recent solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Foley Gallery (New York), and Gallery Wendi Norris (San Francisco). Group shows include the San Jose Museum of Art, the Katonah Museum of Art, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, and the de Saisset Museum. In 2012 Britton was commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission to create a permanent piece for the San Francisco International Airport, which will be completed in 2014. She lives and works in San Francisco.
Val Britton; Collapsible City/Worldscape II. English Language Notes 1 March 2014; 52 (1): 116–117. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-52.1.116
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