Brittany Fanning (b.1991, Jacksonville, Florida) is a Los Angeles-based,
figurative painter with a rapidly growing following amongst collectors
and curators in the international art world.
Her vibrant, variously dreamlike and playful scenes are informed by
some of the luxurious architectural spaces, curated gardens and leisure
pursuits native to LA and Florida.
Inhabited by a solitary and anonymous female figure who might be a stand-in for,
simultaneously, the artist and the viewer, the spaces are Fanning’s conjurings of
imagined places of comfort and solitude, refuges from a world of seemingly constant
crisis. In some pieces, the cameo and dead-pan appearance of wild animals such as bears, big cats and alligators symbolize the threats that may lie in wait in the world-at-large. In others, such as the tennis paintings, playfulness reigns untroubled. Her works arebeautifully and densely painted and wryly humorous and knowing.
Fanning’s are personal negotiations with the complex and often intractable demands and questions posed by contemporary life.