ABOUT
Brittany Rae Benson is an artist based in Steinkjer, Norway. Though working primarily with oils, she will sometimes employ other media such as gouache or markers to render her visions visible to others. She has participated in group shows in both Oklahoma and Norway, and has had her work as a solo artist displayed at a local cafe. Multiple shops have carried prints of her work, which led to a small print of Windmill Sunset to be purchased for use as set dressing for the 2021 film Stillwater.
Saccadism is a style of art developed by BRBenson. It plays on the way one’s eyes takes in an image. Saccadic eye movements, which are a series of eye movements that jump from one point to another multiple times per second, are how one's eyes record something presented to them. These are sent immediately to the brain’s memory department, where it is the job of sensory memory to stitch together the disparate visions. The intake of a moment or object seems smooth to the mind because of sensory memory, but saccadism attempts to capture those initial glimpses and present them individually - before sensory memory has a chance to quilt the pieces together for that final, smooth image. Instead, the viewer is presented with the isolated saccades, cascading across the canvas as a dissection of the brain's vision processing methods. Taking things a step further, the saccades are often arranged in a way to indicate motion through time, and illusions are often created by the arrangement of particular saccades. The viewer is taken on a trip of saccadic fractalization - when looking at a saccadic piece, the eyes are pulled across the canvas in flowing motions that ghost those of the actual saccadic movements, both of the viewer's eyes and those that the artist had lain on the canvas.
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Education
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University of Oklahoma - Bachelor of Music, 2011
Ohio State University - Summer Soil Acarology Program, 2014
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Group Exhibits
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50 Penn Place Gallery, OKC, OK, USA
March-June 2017
July-December 2019
January-August 2020
123 Gallery, Norman, OK, USA
December 2017-April 2018
Paseo Gallery One, Paseo Arts District, OKC, OK, USA
September 2018
Norman Arts Council ONE Event
March 2019
Studio Blikket, Steinkjer, Trøndelag, Norway
August 2021
Vår Egen Høstutstilling
December 2021
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Solo Exhibits
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Gray Owl Coffee, Norman, OK, USA
March-April 2018
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Published Illustrations
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Purple Martins Feeding on Ant Alates, Marker and Ink on Paper. Illustration commissioned for the article Fire Ant Exterminators, Purple Martins and Aerial Pest Control, by Jackson A. Helms IV, Aaron Godfrey, Tayna Ames & Eli S. Bridge. Purple Martin Update, Vol. 24(1) Winter 2015. Pp. 24-27.
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Colony Life Cycle, Ink on Paper.
Appears in guest post by Jackson A. Helms IV on the webpage for Insectes Sociaux, 3 May 2015.
https://insectessociaux.com/2015/05/
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Various Arthropods Eaten On the Wing, for Are invasive fire ants kept in check by native aerial insectivores? Jackson A. Helms, Aaron P. Godfre, Tayna Ames and Eli S. Bridge. Biology Letters 01 May 2016.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0059
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Assorted Linework - From Deer to Grouse to Barn, Ink on Paper.
Patten MA, Barnard AA, Curry CM, Dang H, Loraamm RW (2021) Forging a Bayesian link between habitat selection and avoidance behavior in a grassland grouse. Scientific Reports 11:2791.
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Mitebike, Marker and Ink on Paper.
Appears in Wojciech Niedbała's 2021 article TAKSONOMIA ROZTOCZY PTYCHOIDALNYCH (ACARI, ORIBATIDA)
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Rhetorical Triangles, Digital Illustration.
Patten MA, Smith BD (2021) The extinction crisis: Why words matter. Pp. 44–49 in Freedman E, Shipley Hiles S, Sachsman DB, eds. Communicating Endangered Species: Extinction, News and Public Policy, Routledge.
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Assistant Work
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Assistant to Helene Førde for her installation exhibit Skogsvesen, Steinkjer kunstforening at Regimentsboligen September-October 2021.
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Miscellaneous
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Purchase of print of Windmill Sunset by Epsilon Productions, LLC as use for set dressing of character's house in the 2021 film Stillwater.
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Current Consignment
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STASH
412 E. Main
Norman, OK 73071
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Former Consignment
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Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Gift Shop
555 Elm Avenue
Norman, OK 73019-3003
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DNA Galleries
1709 Northwest 16th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73106
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Studio Blikket
For over a year, I got to share studio space with the amazing Anne Beth Mendal. Though I now work from my home, my time with Studio Blikket will always be one of the highlights of my artistic career.
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