Biography
Native to Colorado, Brittany Wilson has spent the last three years exploring the San Luis Valley and double majoring in Art and Psychology at Adams State University. She works primarily in oil paints; her recent concentration has been on geometric abstraction. She hopes to utilize her background in art to pursue a Masters in Counseling and develop a private practice. Where she can begin to integrate artistic processes into individualized psychotherapeutic techniques for adolescents and adults who have experienced forms of physical or emotional neglect and trauma and often come from under represented and marginalized backgrounds.
Artist Statement
Current Series: Untitles
There is a current psychological debate behind the intention, effectiveness, and development of art therapy practices. Largely this debate stems from the definition of art therapy and whether this includes the therapeutic aspects and process of art making or the analysis of the art product. In this series, I’ve primarily concentrated on process of art making and potential states of flow and therapeutic aspects I experience while creating a piece. This work exhibits control, fundaments and is heavily thought out and executed.
The pieces should imply movement throughout life as the viewer focuses and observes the textures, shapes, colors, harsh verse soft edges. The pieces have a holistic element in which analysis can be performed by the viewer. Similarly, to the work an art therapist may take to analyze a client’s work. The client may take a therapeutic approach to art making and the therapists job is to interpret the product, which is also the objective of the viewer. The pieces are intentionally planned to have absences, lines, particular colors, shapes and impurities that impact the meaning and interpretation behind each individual painting as well as the paintings holistically and functioning as a group.
Each painting is a geometrical abstraction of the consistencies and inconsistencies I have experienced that have gone into shaping the person I have become over the course of my life. I broke apart the values that encompass my day to day life. Once the values were broken down I began to analyze the experiences that are incorporated in each value. All of which have been carefully placed and have particular color intricacies that correlate with the experience’s positive and negative impact. These particular aspects allow for psychological reflection as well as the therapeutic processes of art making. Psychological reflection is through the act of planning and incorporation of autobiographical elements and the psychoanalysis is largely done by the viewer.
The pieces should imply movement throughout life as the viewer focuses and observes the textures, shapes, colors, harsh verse soft edges. The pieces have a holistic element in which analysis can be performed by the viewer. Similarly, to the work an art therapist may take to analyze a client’s work. The client may take a therapeutic approach to art making and the therapists job is to interpret the product, which is also the objective of the viewer. The pieces are intentionally planned to have absences, lines, particular colors, shapes and impurities that impact the meaning and interpretation behind each individual painting as well as the paintings holistically and functioning as a group.
Each painting is a geometrical abstraction of the consistencies and inconsistencies I have experienced that have gone into shaping the person I have become over the course of my life. I broke apart the values that encompass my day to day life. Once the values were broken down I began to analyze the experiences that are incorporated in each value. All of which have been carefully placed and have particular color intricacies that correlate with the experience’s positive and negative impact. These particular aspects allow for psychological reflection as well as the therapeutic processes of art making. Psychological reflection is through the act of planning and incorporation of autobiographical elements and the psychoanalysis is largely done by the viewer.