Brittany Sims

Born in Washington D.C in 1985, Brittany has been painting for the past 15 years. She recently graduated from the MFA program at the New York Studio School in New York City and is currently living and working in
Maryland.

If the images are messengers, what is the message they carry? We are what has been inscribed, they say. Inscribed on you. We are where you have been. We are where you are. Look at us. Look into us. Make of us what you can.- Margaret Atwood

I feel each painting I create is the sum of where I have been and what I have experienced in this restless human landscape. I am an expert people watcher and crowd scenes allow me the opportunity to explore the engulfing sea of humanity. I have found that the natural ebb and flow of the crowds lends itself to presenting the dichotomies and contradictions in contemporary society. In combining drawing, painting and sculpture to create these scenes, I hope to achieve a sense of isolation among the masses and to impose the same feelings upon the viewer that a real crowd might. Ultimately, I wish to explore the push and pull of a social yet egocentric and ultimately isolating culture. Like Edward Hopper and Robert Frank, I hope to capture a moment in time in Am...

Solo Show. New York Studio School. 8 W 8th St. New York, NY
January 13- February 3