Today we’d like to introduce you to Brittany Worlinsky.
Every artist has a unique story. Can you briefly walk us through yours?
I embarked on a road trip across the country to come out to LA and paint, caring about little else. I had my paints, easel, canvas, brushes, and some clothes and started to see what the city had to tell me. I wanted to see a new adventure, a new change unfolding before my very eyes. As I ventured out, I have had many unique experiences come to me. The city was leading me to beautiful parts of nature like seeing sunsets that look painted across the sky and mountaintops where I smelled and felt the crisp thin air in my lungs. I was brought to acrobatic yoga, a partner based yoga, where trust in another person that defines the moment. I was brought a love so strong and so deep that my heart was swelling with happiness. I felt like the balancing act of life gave itself new meaning, as my entire life was perceived with a new focus on the core of a person, what makes a person and making people. Through these experiences, as I try to express these feelings and emotions, the words don’t accurately express what is really there, as experienced through its fullness completeness with those emotions and feelings. This is what drives me to paint; to explore aspects of nature and existence and how they interact together and become one with each other without eliminating or making things any simpler than they have to be.
Please tell us about your art.
I have something inside of me that wants to be expressed. Being an artist can be so closely tied to experiencing the world, both for good and bad, that there is no way to experience life without it. My medium of choice is oil painting, mainly figurative work. I feel like there are other people out there who feel like existence isn’t as simple as it seems, that don’t fit perfectly into society and who question every aspect of their existence. In this way, everybody is an artist to some capacity and can examine both the finer and more generalized points of our existence.
Through my oil paintings, I want the viewer to start an adventure. One that pulls away at the complacency that people naturally fall into so that the world seems new again, so that the very eyes that are seeing it are not just assuming they know what is there, but really seeing everything for what it is. This may be scary and bring about change, but I also hope that this will bring happiness.
What do you think about conditions for artists today? Has life become easier or harder for artists in recent years? What can cities like ours do to encourage and help art and artists thrive?
Today there are so many different avenues for becoming an artist that it can be very overwhelming. Clarification of goals, where you are going, and what kind of an artist you want to be, what messages you wish to covey and how, can be very helpful.
Many artists may find themselves sensitive to external stimuli which is what can drive the desire to be an artist but also can have the effect of the artist cutting themselves off from others to recharge our energy. Find ways to honor protecting our own energy while making absolutely sure that the artist builds a community or a support system is crucial. Meeting other artists and people create opportunity. The artist can use a community as a way of staying engaged with new forms of expression, keeping up with new trends (or avoiding them) and keeping invigorated and renewed with their art form. As artists we communicate so it is important to engage with different ways of getting the message out.
Also, there are people want to tear artists down which are some of the “…most sensitive members of society”, (I think I heard a teacher say that) with the flimsy excuse of getting them used to the “real world,” but in reality we all need to stand up and support each other because there will always be someone who doesn’t care for the artist’s work or wants to tear it down for a million reasons. When things feel really tough I remind myself that sometimes there is real power in just staying around and continuing to spread your message.
How or where can people see your work? How can people support your work?
brittanyworlinsky.com
@brittanyworlinskyart
New show coming up in February at the Proxy Place Gallery, 19860 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA, 91311 celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the March 1st movement, a series of demonstrations working towards nonviolent protests of Korean independence from Japan.
Pop-up Underground Art Show at The Vortex, 2341 E Olympic Blvd. LA, Feb. 22nd-Sun Feb. 24th, 7pm-2am
New show coming up summertime 2019 LA, exploring monochromatic responses to stimuli, details TBD.
Paintings on display at Tampa Bay Interiors Gallery, FL.
Paintings featured in “The Party” movie, directed by Julianna Robinson, to be released 2019.
Contact Info:
- Website: brittanyworlinsky.com
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: @brittanyworlinskyart
Image Credit:
All images taken by Brittany Worlinsky
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