Postmodernist ($350) Members and above are invited to our next Meet the Maker on Thursday, February 12, from 6:00 – 7:30 PM, featuring spring/summer 2026 artist Maria Britton in celebration of her exhibition, Second Sleep.
Meet the Makers are quarterly get-togethers for members at the Postmodernist level and above to meet an artist or maker and learn about their creative process within an intimate setting. The Maker is often an upcoming or past exhibiting artist at the Halsey Institute. They will give a presentation describing their inspiration, passions, process, and, ultimately, final result. Members are asked to bring “a bottle of wine and an open mind.”
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About Maria Britton
Maria Britton (born 1982, Florence, SC) lives and works in Carrboro, NC. She has participated in artist residencies through Lighthouse Works, Hambidge Center, Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Petrified Forest National Park, and Vermont Studio Center. Her recent group exhibitions include the Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, Lump Gallery, and Atlanta Contemporary. Her work will be featured in New American Paintings No. 178. Maria earned her BFA from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC, and her MFA from UNC Chapel Hill. From 2015–2020, she co-directed an experimental art gallery called LOG. Maria has worked around 50 jobs as a housecleaner, educator, stain and glaze dental technician, direct support professional, photo re-toucher, hospital artist-in-residence working directly with oncology patients, and rideshare driver.
Britton creates abstract paintings, sculptures, and textile-based works by repurposing two everyday materials—bedsheets and newspaper. In transforming these discarded materials, her work engages themes of memory, dreams, accumulation, labor, gender, and value. Second Sleep highlights Britton’s textile-based works called Draperies in which patterned bedsheets become expertly layered, pleated, and playful abstract paintings. Mounted on the wall in curtain-like forms, her Draperies shape liminal portals of reflection, whether obscuring the past or inviting to imagine what lies beyond.
Maria Britton: Second Sleep will be presented concurrently with In Kyoung Chun: Make Room from April 10 – July 25, 2026.
Maria Britton: Second Sleep & In Kyoung Chun: Make Room are funded in part by the South Carolina Arts Commission which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts and funded in part by a generous award from the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund of The Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina.
