Artist Maria Britton presents "Second Sleep," a solo exhibition at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art featuring her "Draperies" series. Britton transforms discarded, patterned bedsheets into three-dimensional abstract works that blur the line between painting and sculpture through expert layering and pleating.
By utilizing domestic textiles, Britton explores themes of memory, gendered labor, and the history of human rest patterns. The exhibition's title references the pre-industrial habit of segmented sleep, positioning these tactile portals as spaces for creativity and reflection that challenge the rigid productivity of modern capitalism.