The works of Christopher Burch report from the interstices of identity and history, depicting bodies, acts and ideas within a process of co-emergence, slippage, and simultaneity. Burch’s aesthetic, fully realized as a resistant personal language, employs the abject and grotesque as accomplices: both hinge upon empathy as the locus of their power. Through drawing, sculpture, installation, and other desperate materials, Burch exposes the artifice inherent to the practice of self -definition through exteriority.
Surface is an illusion of protection-a false border
Wall Drawing #3, graphite @ Lobot Gallery Oakland CA (2010)
DENIZEN was a group exhibition that discussed historical filters, circumstance and perception through form, collaborative action and material usage. Artists G. Cole Allee, Barry Beach, Lisa K. Blatt, Christopher Burch, Ross Campbell, Matthew Cella, Brett Goodroad, Vita Hewitt, Elyse Hochstadt, Jeremiah Jenkins, Ken Jensen, Geraldine Lozano, John K. Melvin presented works that explored notions of fragility, guidance, upheaval and habit. Curated by Niki Shapiro
4.2.2012 |
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