The Body is a Vessel that Speaks
As a visually voracious creature in a tech-driven culture, I have been thinking of how painting can pull itself out of the dimension of lighted pixels and revel in blissful materiality. Since we always relate to the things around us back to our own physical bodies, I combined painting and sculpting to create intimate paintings that tangibly speak about the organic vessels we reside in. Because of their shallow relief, they purposefully aren’t good candidates for photography and social media.
Caitlin Albritton is an interdisciplinary artist, arts writer, and educator who lives and works in Tampa, Florida. She graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a major in painting, and she received her MFA in Studio Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has exhibited her works in galleries and museums nationally and internationally. Her painting was featured on the cover of New American Painting South Edition in 2017, and she has been awarded an Arts Council of Hillsborough County Individual Artist Grant and a Meyerhoff You+ Graduate Fellowship. Albritton has been an artist-in-residence at the Morris Graves Foundation, the Golden Foundation, the Bäsel House, and the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge.