Amanda Burnham "From the Land of Pleasant Living"
Benrimon Contemporary
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Burnham creates drawings and installations based on American urban landscapes. Starting from observational sketches made on site, she compiles, manipulates, and then pieces together fragments to arrive at a more subjective representation of place. This process of displacement and layering expands upon her initial explorations of the city, suggesting mechanisms underlying the creation and destruction of these environments.
Access is a theme which recurs in Burnham’s work. Her works on paper often reveal the context of her relationship to the subject during the process of its depiction, through the inclusion of a dashboard or rear view mirror as a framing device, or the overlay of chain link fence and other barriers. The resulting images are compositionally labyrinthine and willfully difficult to navigate.
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from January 06, 2011 to January 28, 2011