Amanda Burnham
My drawings and drawing installations are founded on my
explorations of the city. Often working outside or in my car, I
read the landscape for found fragments of language, and, with
ink and other water media on paper, I record the poetics of built
structures and the communities they frame and contain. I often
piece together fragments in a cumulative manner, not unlike the
way the urban landscape is collectively authored over time. In my
most recent works on paper and panel, structures and detritus
from the physical landscape become a metaphorical framework
and point of departure for images that enfold an idiosyncratic
personal iconography.
My drawing installations expand on these explorations: working
with paint-on-paper drawings of found landscape elements
as raw material, I collage directly onto built armatures and the
surfaces of the gallery space. I further animate the imagery with
lighting, resulting in an immersive simulacrum of the city.