Embedded Relationships
July-August 2024
Neon Heater Gallery
Findlay, OH
Mixed fiber, ceramic terra-cotta, wood, house paint
Embedded Relationships, a solo exhibition by Britny Wainwright, continues the artist’s interest in combining soft fiber with hard ceramics. The orange-drenched gallery complements the desaturated palette of creams, whites, and earthy terra-cotta browns. Textural floral motifs partner with traditional quilt block patterns to speak about the intimate domestic space. Flower buds, or perhaps flowers past their prime, are included in all works. Sometimes they are flat abstracted renderings, other times as bulb-shaped unglazed ceramic components stacked and bunched with muslin leaves stuffed with sand. This exhibition ponders the quiet and makes us stand still.
Embedded Relationships, a solo exhibition by Britny Wainwright, continues the artist’s interest in combining soft fiber with hard ceramics. The orange-drenched gallery complements the desaturated palette of creams, whites, and earthy terra-cotta browns. Textural floral motifs partner with traditional quilt block patterns to speak about the intimate domestic space. Flower buds, or perhaps flowers past their prime, are included in all works. Sometimes they are flat abstracted renderings, other times as bulb-shaped unglazed ceramic components stacked and bunched with muslin leaves stuffed with sand. This exhibition ponders the quiet and makes us stand still.
Post Bloom Prune
September 2023
Farmer Family Gallery
Ohio State University Lima Campus
Farmer Family Gallery
Ohio State University Lima Campus
Post Bloom Prune is an exhibition by Britny Wainwright that features sculptural works that pair terra-cotta vessels and textile cushions. Each piece dwells on observations of daily flora; the tender rise and lush decay of blossoms, the garden, and the domestic landscape of the vase. This exhibition reflects on the endurance and end of a long summer.
The combination of terra-cotta vessels and stitched cushions speaks of the body; the garments we wrap ourselves in and the pillows we rest our heads on. Textile intersects ceramic form hugging and lidding the openness of the vessel. A nod to the gendered history of flower painting, often relegated to women, these objects flatten and become still lifes. These works continue an investigation of domestic space, feminism, and material culture.
The title, Post Bloom Prune, refers to when flowers are “dead headed” or snipped off. The end of a long growing season is marked with decay, a removal of beauty. These works consider the marking of time associated with blooms and the shifts in our lived environment.
The combination of terra-cotta vessels and stitched cushions speaks of the body; the garments we wrap ourselves in and the pillows we rest our heads on. Textile intersects ceramic form hugging and lidding the openness of the vessel. A nod to the gendered history of flower painting, often relegated to women, these objects flatten and become still lifes. These works continue an investigation of domestic space, feminism, and material culture.
The title, Post Bloom Prune, refers to when flowers are “dead headed” or snipped off. The end of a long growing season is marked with decay, a removal of beauty. These works consider the marking of time associated with blooms and the shifts in our lived environment.
Pattern Play
collaboration with Carolina AlamillaJuly 2022
934 Gallery
Columbus, OH
ceramic, digital printed wallpaper, wood, canvas, wood, and housepaint
In this first collaboration, Alamilla and Wainwright are interested in the combination of hard and soft, decoration as a power move, and bold tastes in color. This installation of digitally printed wallpaper, and ceramic and fiber sculpture creates a space that is jungle, kitchen, and theater. It is a space for viewers to walk into, laugh along with, and be enveloped in the oddly private and public space the artists have created.
In this first collaboration, Alamilla and Wainwright are interested in the combination of hard and soft, decoration as a power move, and bold tastes in color. This installation of digitally printed wallpaper, and ceramic and fiber sculpture creates a space that is jungle, kitchen, and theater. It is a space for viewers to walk into, laugh along with, and be enveloped in the oddly private and public space the artists have created.
Window Fringe
Wood, Canvas, Ceramic Terra-cotta, Waxed String
52” x 26” x 36” each
52” x 26” x 36” each
K.I.T. (Keep in Touch) Terrain Biennial
Springfield, IL
Springfield, IL
Window Fringe continues my fascination with domestic and public space. By creating prop-like flower window boxes, I combine and confuse what belongs inside or outside. I question what is authentic. The falseness of these sculptures is not unlike a manicured garden, floral curtains, or a fake flower arrangement. As we have all become more acquainted with our homes, the boundaries between our familiar surroundings and the world feel simultaneously closer and further apart.
https://terrainexhibitions.org/springfield-il-21
https://terrainexhibitions.org/springfield-il-21