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August 23 - September 30, 2023
​Sunstroke | Denise Burge

In Conversation with Denise Burge
Artist Statement:
My work addresses how our ideas about certain places represent a sort of cultural fantasy, a romantic collage of impressions and desires which ossify into a psychological 'space' that in fact is no place at all.  Currently I am most interested in the element of the tropical as a representation of leisure, fecundity, nascent life and mortality.   

Every summer of my youth was highlighted by a trip to the South Carolina coast. The profuse tropical plants, the tawdry neon ‘party-down’ boardwalk promenades, and the mysterious waters themselves struck me as otherworldly and sensual.  Idealistic vernacular representation of these places abounded (on t-shirts, billboards, etc) as functions of our desire for idyllic leisure and exotic glamour, even though we were right in the middle of the spaces depicted. 

I work in the fabric medium primarily because of the theatrical nature of the painted quilt.  Until close inspection, the work often looks like it was painted—but much of it is pieced and embroidered.  I also love the slowness of embroidery, which for me, evokes the narcotic effect that I want the work to contain. My works on paper are often sketches or ‘rehearsals’ of approaches to the quilts.  Both employ a mixture of 'high and low art' surfaces and styles, referencing vernacular urban coastal culture.

My deepest fascination is with our layered relationship with the natural world.  The environments in these images represent my attempt to create a hybrid paradise that embraces both worlds:  the air-brushed fantasy and the corporeal reality of our own oceanic bodies.

Artist Bio: 
Denise Burge received her MFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1991, and since has taught at the New York State College of Ceramics and the University of Cincinnati, where she is a Professor of Art.  She teaches courses that range from seminars on film theory to fiber art and animation.  In 2004 she was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Visual Art. She has received multiple Ohio Arts Council Awards for Individual Artists and has been awarded competitive, funded residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito California, and the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans.  Recently Burge combines solo work in the quilt medium with collaborative work in video and installation.  

Inventory

Tidepool
Acrylic on paper
$300

Shadow Self
Acrylic on paper
$300

Pablo 2
Fabric, embroidery, paint
$5000

Dusk
Acrylic on paper
$300

Drape
Acrylic on paper
$400

snakes
Acrylic on paper
$500

Pablo
Fabric, embroidery, paint
$5000

Wave
Acrylic on paper
$500

Miami
Acrylic on paper
$500

oceanic 2
Ceramic, gouache
$350

oceanic 5
Ceramic, gouache
$300

oceanic 3
Ceramic, gouache, nail polish
$500

oceanic 4
Ceramic, gouache
$400

oceanic 6
Ceramic, gouache, nail polish, varnish
$500


oceanic 1
Ceramic, gouache
$300


Glowup
Acrylic on paper
$500

Pressed
Fabric, embroidery, quilt
$5000

Vacancy-lot
Acrylic on paper
$400
Buckham Gallery is funded by the following organizations:
Generous support is provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. 

Our activities are sponsored in part by an award from the MICHIGAN ARTS AND CULTURE COUNCIL  and the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS. 
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This program is sponsored by the Greater Flint Arts Council Share Art Genesee Grant Program made possible by the Genesee County Arts Education and Cultural Millage funds. Your tax dollars are at work!
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    • Late Summer Solo Exhibitions >
      • Sunstroke | Denise Burge
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    • Selected Past Exhibitions >
      • Summer Solo Exhibitions >
        • In a Dream | Robert Beras
        • Nature is Healing | Maria Lux
        • Vocation as Vacation | Andrew Rider
      • June Solo Exhibitions >
        • Oasis of Symmetry | Aisha Changezi
        • Late Stage Block Party | Adrian Hatfield
        • Everted Sanctuaries: Exquisite Contortions | Ryan Lewis
      • April Exhibitions >
        • Sam Morello Selected Works
        • Small Works - National Juried Exhibition
        • Teeth & Hair - National Juried Exhibition
      • Late Winter Solo Exhibitions >
        • Tokens and Traces | Jeanne Ciravolo
        • Between Here and There | Kimberly LaVonne
        • A Reckoning in Pink | Danielle Mužina
      • January Solo Exhibitions >
        • Crawl Space | Guen Montgomery
        • Portraits of Home | Whitney Lea Sage
        • Interior Visions: Domestic Sphere | Stephanie Serpick
      • Early Winter Exhibitions >
        • Empty Road, Great Tornado - Emmett Merrill
        • Nice Things for Nice People - Kate Snow
        • Recent Work - Michael Melet
      • November Exhibition >
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      • 101 Artists
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      • Caution: May Contain Nudity >
        • Donovan Entrekin
        • Friends
      • Summer Exhibitions >
        • Heidi Brueckner
        • Craig Hinshaw
        • Michael Weigman
      • Early Summer Exhibitions >
        • Barriers & Preservers | Margaret Davis
        • Endless Endeavors | Benjamin Muñoz
      • BIPOC is The Theme! >
        • BIPOC Artists for Feature Exhibition
        • Viewing Room
      • Late Winter Exhibitions >
        • Dialectics and the Decommodified: The Spectres of Capital- Morgan Craig
        • Textures of the Southwest- Robert Huebel
        • All the Pretty Little Horses- Chris Waters
      • Small Talk >
        • Viewing Room
      • December Exhibitions >
        • Horizons | Emily Legleitner
        • Indexing Schizophrenia | Diane Zeeuw
        • Seeking Solace | Rebecca Zeiss
      • Black & White
      • Entropy >
        • Viewing Room
      • 2021 Exhibitions
      • 2020 Exhibitions
      • 2019 Exhibitions
    • Art Money
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    • Cider & Slides
    • Past Events >
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        • 2022 Smallidge Lecture
        • Jan. 10, 2020: Artist Talks with Ardea Thurston-Shaine and Dominique Chastenet de Gary
        • Tommy Mintz, Nov. 2019
        • 2019 Smallidge Lecture
        • June 2019: Panel Discussion with John Dempsey, Guy Adamec, and Amy Gibas
        • May 4, 2019- Artist Talk with Stephen Halko and Nick Reszetar
        • April 13, 2019 ​Artist Talk and Deviant Life Drawing Session with Jeanine Leclaire
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