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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.  

Buckham Gallery is funded by the following organizations:
Generous support is provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

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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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    • Summer Exhibitions
    • Guy Adamec
    • Dustin Brinkman
    • Yvonne Petkus
    • Exhibition Opportunities >
      • Secret Spaces-CFE
      • Mouth Feel-CFE
      • Closed: I've Been Here Before-CFE
      • Closed: Small Works-CFE
      • CLOSED: BYOC Call for Art
      • Jury and PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
    • In Conversation
    • 2024-2025 Exhibitions
    • Selected Past Exhibitions >
      • ben duke | Chance Factor
      • Russell Prather | Crux/Flux
      • Late Winter 2025 >
        • Sara Paula Hoffman- Midwestern Dolls & Ghosts
        • Daniel Kienitz | Fruiting Bodies
        • Jeremy McGirl - Every Little Bit Counts
      • Winter Exhibitions 1/17-2/15/25 >
        • Amanda Edwards | Little Bean Dude
        • Terra Lockhart | We Will Fluoresce Together
        • Eros & Thanatos
      • Winter Exhibitions: Threshold & Snap >
        • Threshold | Emily Scott Beck
        • Snap, National Juried Exhibition
      • November Exhibitions: Brown Bag & Dives, Diners & Drive-Ins >
        • Brown Bag, National Juried Exhibition
        • Dives, Diners & Drive-Ins
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        • Recent Work | Robert J Huebel
      • Gebhardt | Nuzum Selected Works >
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        • Tom Nuzum Selected Works
      • Mid Summer Exhibitions >
        • In Spite of It | Yvette L Cummings
        • Clay Vessels | Craig Hinshaw
        • Tipping Point | Craig Cully & Kelly Leslie
      • Summer Exhibitions >
        • I Get My Hit And Then I Run With It | Jessika Edgar
        • Located in the Newly Unfamiliar | Laura Carpenter Truitt & Amy Reckley
      • 40 Years of Buckham Fine Arts Project
      • Spring Exhibitions >
        • Bonded thru Threaded Memories | Boisali Biswas
        • Metaphysique, National Juried Exhibition
        • Sculpture, National Juried Exhibition
      • Collectanea
      • Forest Elegy
      • Winter 2024 Exhibitions >
        • High Profile | Ariana Vaeth
        • Donut King | #0591
        • Press Play
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        • Contemporary Realism: Four Artist, Four Voices
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          • US | Teresa Dunn
          • New Work | Buckham Artist Collaborators
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          • Selected Works Tom Nuzum
          • Among the Folds | Tai Lipan
          • Llamáme Por Mi Nombre | Kiara Aileen Machado
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        • 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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