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Alle Tode bin ich schon gestorben
-Hermann Hesse
-Hermann Hesse
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; sometimes violent
and grotesque life.
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. 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
implications of archetypal awareness and gnostic
meaning surface through the medium.
The artist received some attention for his
non-traditional artist's statements, more 'manifestos'.
Based in his background in behavioral modification
and studies in psychology (including that of
non-verbal communication), the effects of hue,
declination of line, image juxtaposition and
compartmentalization on specific areas of the brain, as
well as archetypal imagery, Burris explores the nature
of non-verbal communication of context and emotion
through color fields.
In late 2008, Mr. Burris published a collection of
works, 'Codex: Fragments & Schemata', a montage of
paintings juxtaposed with artist statements and
fragmented graphics meant to invoke the semblance
of gnosis: knowledge or insight into the infinite or
divine. The conceit being hidden knowledge carried
by prose as disinhibiting stimuli, targeting the
unconscious self by transcending linear formula and
allowing the message to bypass ordinary
consciousness, with parallels from Voegelin and
William Blake, from the Pistis Sophia to Philip K. Dick,
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; sometimes violent
and grotesque life.
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. 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
implications of archetypal awareness and gnostic
meaning surface through the medium.
The artist received some attention for his
non-traditional artist's statements, more 'manifestos'.
Based in his background in behavioral modification
and studies in psychology (including that of
non-verbal communication), the effects of hue,
declination of line, image juxtaposition and
compartmentalization on specific areas of the brain, as
well as archetypal imagery, Burris explores the nature
of non-verbal communication of context and emotion
through color fields.
In late 2008, Mr. Burris published a collection of
works, 'Codex: Fragments & Schemata', a montage of
paintings juxtaposed with artist statements and
fragmented graphics meant to invoke the semblance
of gnosis: knowledge or insight into the infinite or
divine. The conceit being hidden knowledge carried
by prose as disinhibiting stimuli, targeting the
unconscious self by transcending linear formula and
allowing the message to bypass ordinary
consciousness, with parallels from Voegelin and
William Blake, from the Pistis Sophia to Philip K. Dick,
all held up to a mirror darkly, of depth and archetypal
psychology.
Like the Zen koan, or the moment of reflection in which
the memory does not come, or that which lures by its
absence… this montage evokes ‘the forms of an idea of
the thing and its aspects, and brings the viewer to
succumb to the illusion of the whole’ (to paraphrase
Jung).
The themes Burris explores run from the Gnostics to
quantum physics, Freud to Hillman; to where the
metaphysical meets the subconscious, and on the verge
of the crest of sudden awareness, that intuitive
revelation, the artist, Judas-like, disavows the meaning
and implications as mere fictions and device.
Brian Burris shows a half-dozen times a year, and is
represented by the Dzian Gallery on Water Street in
Worcester Massachusetts. He shows through
ArtsWorcester, as well as in corporate, institutional, and
retail settings. He has shown in various venues from
Cambridge to Northampton.
An entry of the artist's name into any search engine will
produce the various links with information where to
purchase his book, related media, past articles, and
show venues.
psychology.
Like the Zen koan, or the moment of reflection in which
the memory does not come, or that which lures by its
absence… this montage evokes ‘the forms of an idea of
the thing and its aspects, and brings the viewer to
succumb to the illusion of the whole’ (to paraphrase
Jung).
The themes Burris explores run from the Gnostics to
quantum physics, Freud to Hillman; to where the
metaphysical meets the subconscious, and on the verge
of the crest of sudden awareness, that intuitive
revelation, the artist, Judas-like, disavows the meaning
and implications as mere fictions and device.
Brian Burris shows a half-dozen times a year, and is
represented by the Dzian Gallery on Water Street in
Worcester Massachusetts. He shows through
ArtsWorcester, as well as in corporate, institutional, and
retail settings. He has shown in various venues from
Cambridge to Northampton.
An entry of the artist's name into any search engine will
produce the various links with information where to
purchase his book, related media, past articles, and
show venues.
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