Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Amanda Burnham: Denominator @ Loyola

Amanda Burnham: Denominator
Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola College
4501 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210.
Gallery hours are Monday through
Friday 11am -5pm and Sunday 1-4pm.
(410) 617-2799.
Exhibition Dates: November 3 – December 10, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 6, 5 – 7 pm

An exhibition featuring the artist’s newest work on paper as well as an
installation drawing on site at the Gallery.

Burnham’s work offers a unique perspective on contemporary American
landscapes, reflecting ways individuals are affected by the
ever-increasing sense of shock and alarm in corporate culture. Her
complex, multi-layered compositions depict cities and suburbs in which
nature is present but dominated by corporate brands, logos and graffiti.
In her work, the physicality of the natural world is blurred and
unclear, leaving the viewer immersed in an abstract illustration of
natural surroundings – the viewpoint of one desperately attempting to
escape from the alienating voices of commercial America.

Her work plays with the striking incongruity between what is real and
what is advertised in America. Burnham explains, “I thought about the
false promise of advertising, as well as telling ironies exposed by
unplanned environmental juxtapositions such as glossy billboards
advertising luxury goods to speeding commuters planted in neglected
roadside urban spaces.”

Also on exhibit is a selection of Burnham’s constructed paintings, Front
Lines and Gulf, in which she constructs the pictorial landscape of
cities and suburbs haphazardly, utilizing saturated paint and cardboard
constructions to reflect on individual alienation in contemporary life.






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