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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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