Claire Burke

Claire Burke Ancestor

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* viewer's choice exceptional works award, VOICES exhibition

acrylic paint, paper on wood

16 x 20

$500

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Artist Statement

This painting is part of an ongoing series of work that examines themes of mortality and loss. What interests me is to capture the smallness, fragility, and tenuousness of human life. Through this work, I pose these questions: How are our bodies connected to the landscape? How is it that we somehow coexist with destruction and creation, with loss and renewal? How can art capture what is both visceral and the ethereal in life? With these paintings, I hope to reconnect the viewer and artist, helping us find our place within an oscillating , imperfect, but living landscape.