Lecture: 123 Art Building

4:30-5:30 p.m., Thursday, May 15, 2014 

Val Britton was born in Livingston, New Jersey. She received her B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and her M.F.A. 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, she has participated in residencies and fellowships including the Affiliate Program at Headlands Center for the Arts, Recology, Millay Colony for the Arts, Kala Art Institute, Jentel, Caldera, and the Ucross Foundation. She has exhibited her work nationally including recent solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and Foley Gallery in New York. Group shows include the San Jose Museum of Art, the Katonah Museum of Art, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, the de Saisset Museum, and Gallery Wendi Norris.

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 and is represented by Foley Gallery and Gallery Wendi Norris, where she will present a solo exhibition in June 2014.