Thursday, January 28, 2010
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Statement
I hate writing artist statements but given the recent changes in my work it's high time for a current one. So here we are: (skip down past the images)
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most
of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the
air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Writ large on the surfaces of urban space in thousands of ways is the tension between the organism of cities and the greatest hopes of their individual architects and residents.
I am moved by the ways cities don't work. Painting on a wall, I tease out the edges of nameable things, then suppress them in silhouette, or literally fence them in. Drawing quickly and voluminously with ink on small, heavy, and unevenly deckled pages resembling chipped paint, I seek to record, from as many vantage points as I can see and imagine, the hysteria, confusion, and loneliness arising from the confrontation between individuals and the overwhelming, unknowable structures of cities.
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most
of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the
air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Writ large on the surfaces of urban space in thousands of ways is the tension between the organism of cities and the greatest hopes of their individual architects and residents.
I am moved by the ways cities don't work. Painting on a wall, I tease out the edges of nameable things, then suppress them in silhouette, or literally fence them in. Drawing quickly and voluminously with ink on small, heavy, and unevenly deckled pages resembling chipped paint, I seek to record, from as many vantage points as I can see and imagine, the hysteria, confusion, and loneliness arising from the confrontation between individuals and the overwhelming, unknowable structures of cities.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Amanda Burnham / Denominator
Artist Talk/Reception: Thursday, November 6, 5pm-7pmNovember 3 - December 10, 2008
Gallery Hours:
Monday to Friday, 11am - 5pm
Sunday, 1pm - 4pm
Saturday, Closed
Location and Parking:
The Julio Fine Arts Gallery is in the College Center directly north of Jenkins lot and Francis X. Knott Humanities Center. Pay parking is available in Jenkins lot on Bunn Drive and free parking is available on Cold Spring Lane after 6pm.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Never Cry Woof - Still available from No Tell Books
Do you have a copy of Never Cry Woof yet? No?
Craziness. You can purchase it on Amazon for a mere 15 bucks!
Be sure to visit Shafer Hall's blog, too.
Friday, September 19, 2008
upcoming show
I have a solo show at the Julio Art Center at Loyola College upcoming.
"Amanda Burnham: Denominator".
November 3rd - December 10, 2008. Opening reception Thursday, November 6, 5-7pm.
More information to come!
"Amanda Burnham: Denominator".
November 3rd - December 10, 2008. Opening reception Thursday, November 6, 5-7pm.
More information to come!
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