'Painting has always been my therapy' | Brittney Ciccone Timestamp
- Andy McIlvain
- 18 hours ago
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'Painting has always been my therapy' | Brittney Ciccone Timestamp
"Born in the Hudson Valley of New York and now based in Boston, Massachusetts, Brittney Ciccone is an abstract painter whose work explores texture, intuition, material experimentation, and emotional experience. Working across multiple bodies of work that range from heavily textured abstractions to faceless figurative compositions, Ciccone embraces a process-driven approach that values discovery, imperfection, and authenticity over rigid planning.
In this studio visit, Brittney reflects on her early attraction to art, studying at the Fashion Institute of Technology, building a sustainable career as a full-time artist, and the role painting has played throughout major transitions in her life. Her work is rooted in experimentation, often incorporating raw linen, acrylics, pigments, pumice, paper, inks, pastels, and found materials.
Through layering, destruction, reconstruction, and constant reinvention, each painting becomes a record of both process and personal experience.
Throughout the conversation, Brittney discusses creativity, motherhood, artistic freedom, material exploration, community, failure, authenticity, and the realities of making a living as a working artist. For her, painting functions as both a meditative practice and a form of personal therapy. "This is basically you're buying my therapy," she explains. Whether creating large-scale abstractions or intimate mixed-media works, Ciccone approaches painting as a space where experimentation can lead to unexpected discoveries and where authenticity remains more important than perfection." from the video introduction
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