Artist Information:
Brian Burris
Worcester, MA
United States
Member Since: Dec 2007
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Artist Statement:
Brian Burris has been painting for over twenty years.
He is a primitive, in the sense that he is self-taught.
Originally, he more closely identified with the
abstract expressionists, with the emphasis on the
'automatic' or subconscious act of painting, the
accompanying emotional intensity and the
anti-figurative, sometimes violent and grotesque
aesthetic, and the press as refered to him as a hard-drinking, bare-knuckles fighting hulk, comparing to both Hunter S. Thompson (and I had never met the late Mr. Thompson but Mr. Burris assures me he's no Hunter Thompson) and Jack Kerouac.
After a seven-year hiatus, Mr. Burris returned to
painting and segued into the more minimalist style
seen in color field painters like Clyfford Still, Rothko,
and Barnett Newman. In comparing him to actual painters, Rothko most frequently comes up. Burris began to explore the
parallel themes of the spiritual, and the unconscious
mind, reflected in the painting process itself
progressing according to both the will of the
subconscious and the properties of paint and
canvas, letting the execution and the subject matter
become analogous to the unconscious psyche
asserting and expressing itself, where unconscious
meets chance, spirituality borders on psychology,
and the...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Most current exhibitions:
25) July ’07: ArtsWorcester, 'A Cool Breeze': Summer Member’s Exhibition.
26) Sept '07: Mechanic's Hall, 150th Anniversary Open House, Worcester Mass.
27) Oct '07: 'Honoring Memory', Gallery 181, Lawrence Mass. (juried).
28) Nov '07: ArtsWorcester 'Fire & Ice 2007'.
29) Nov '07: Art House 2007 Art ...
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Artist Galleries:
representation:
Dzian Gallery, Water Street, Worcester Mass
Aurora Gallery, Main Street, Worcester Mass
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Brian Burris's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Brian Burris's Portfolio. Browse Burris's body of work: Brian Burris has been painting for over twenty years.
He is a primitive, in the sense that he is self-taught.
Originally, he more closely identified with the
abstract expressionists, with the emphasis on the
'automatic' or subconscious act of painting, the
accompanying emotional intensity and the
anti-figurative, sometimes violent and grotesque
aesthetic, and the press as refered to him as a hard-drinking, bare-knuckles fighting hulk, comparing to both Hunter S. Thompson (and I had never met the late Mr. Thompson but Mr. Burris assures me he's no Hunter Thompson) and Jack Kerouac.
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ghosts on the water, 2009 Acrylic Painting, 36 x 48 X 2 inches Price: US$ 1700

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transmuted, 2009 Acrylic Painting, 54 x 54 X 2 inches Price: US$ 3200

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becoming light, 2009 Acrylic Painting, 36 x 48 X 2 inches Price: US$ 1900

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naked between earth and sky, 2009 Acrylic Painting, 36 x 48 X 2 inches Price: US$ 1900

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segnale levant, 2009 Acrylic Painting, 48 x 64 X 2 inches Price: US$ 2300

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in the year of the flood, 2006 Acrylic Painting, 30 x 40 X 2 inches Price: US$ 1600

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