Sandra Burns, Tricia Wright and Lynne Allen

Interior Perspectives

June 3 - July 2, 2010

Sandra Clark Burns states that her work "roots in the relationship between past interior environments and the systematic chaos that can occur within."   She explains:

It's the fragment of resistance between a structure and the action taking place that I find intriguing.  The repetitious aspects of my work are a utilization of accumulated imagery that continually compiles upon itself.     It is within this accrued imagery that an act or performance is emitted and documented.

Burns received a BFA from Parsons School of Design and an MFA from the Yale School of Art.  She is currently a Lecturer at the Yale School of Art in the Department of Sculpture.  In 2008-09 she was an artist in residence at The MacDowell Colony and the recipient of the Chenven Foundation Grant.  She has received an artist grant from the Connecticut Commission of the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center Clowes Fellowship.  Burns' work has been shown and collected throughout the country.  This is her first exhibition in New York.

Tricia Wright states

that her work draws on "our complex, often ambivalent, relationship to the Home," and employs the physical materials of the domestic environment as metaphors for the psychological interior: 

Born and raised in England, Wright received her degrees from Hertfordshire College of Art and Design, and the Camberwell and the ChelseaSchools of Art in London.  She moved to New York ten years ago, and now runs a full time studio on the Hudson River, regularly exhibiting her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the New York area and on the West Coast.  She is the recipient of numerous residencies and awards, and a frequent lecturer and panel member throughout the region on general topics of art and color theory.  Her work can be found in the United States Embassy; the Hove Museum of Art, the 20^th Century British Art Collection in the U.K. Corporate collectors of Wright's work include Alliance Bernstein, White & Case, Metromedia International Group, Kent County Council, and the University of Wales.  David Bowie is among the many personal collectors of her work.

Lynne Allen works in different media, including photogravure, miniature glass objects and neon sculpture, all of which she infuses with a unique sense of style and humor.  In Interior Perspectives her neon sculpture, Hook, Line and Sinker, is on display as a complement to the work of Tricia Wright and Sandra Burns.  It amusingly evokes the all-encompassing, mechanized nature of running a Home.  Allen writes that the neon sign "is a kind of lure, seducing the viewer under false or misleading pretenses."   She adds, "Things are not always as they seem, and we are not to believe appearances, even in art."

Allen received her MA from the University of Washington, a Master Printer Certification from Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, and her MFA from the University of New Mexico.  She has had numerous solo exhibitions and dozens of group exhibitions.  Her work is in the permanent collections of museums and corporations throughout the world, including the WhitneyMuseum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and AlbertMuseum in London, the Corcoran Museum of Art in WashingtonD.C., Johnson & Johnson Corporation, and countless others.  She is also recipient of numerous awards, honors, fellowships and residencies.