Kimberley Bursic

Lives and works in Washington D.C., DC, USA

Artist statement

My art conveys a personal view of living and the creative struggle to articulate it. It is a place to be an insomniac, a place for memories, a place of destruction and perseverance. Juxtaposed shapes, colors and material processes disrupt the reading of the piece; like an interrupted thought or conversation. The imagery is yielding to some other thing insisting on attention, where one is left with a vague idea of meaning and distraction. Using symbolic language that reference nature, time, weather, blooming, deterioration, views from land and space, refer to what I am internalizing and observing. Layered over a grid, these fluid shapes and memories are pinned down, trapped within the printed lines. There are mechanics of order and logic, and a sense of place, yet the organic forms come in and out of view, defying the order, undermining sense and logic, like an interrupted conversation or thought. Within all of these allusions there is space for the observer to find something relatable. I build a painting just as a print; layer upon layer of ink, paper, and paint. I combine and overlay the printmaking processes of etching, collagraph and chine colle’ on paper, working the paint over the print, integrating the shapes over the multitude of images. The same etching plate, chine colle’ and colors are used throughout the series, engraining layers of memories, meaning and time into the artwork.

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