Bio

Angela Burson is a visual artist working in a variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, and needlework. She is an alumni of the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she received her B.F.A. in Painting in 1991. A native of Liberty, Missouri, the Savannah, GA-based artist has exhibited her work across the U.S. and abroad, including at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO, the SCAD Museum of Art, Kobo Gallery, Location Gallery, Savannah, GA, and Gallery Most, Podgorica, Montenegro.

Statement

Throughout my career, I have been influenced by anachronistic images of fashion and personal objects. I paint images of figures, their personal objects, and interior spaces, which indicate complex psychological and social relationships with one another. Often, the figure is cropped or headless, so the viewer sees the clothed body not as a portrait, but as a collection of objects and patterns. I am interested in the surreal connection between realistic subject matter and flat repetitive pattern. Often, the objects, personages, or fragments of a body are culled from existing family photographs. Shirts as conjoined twins, empty suits, bandaged arms, headless torsos, a suitcase, a toy, an empty room—all are employed as signifiers, providing glimpses into the complexities of identity and the possibilities that exist in relationships between objects. The subtlety of the closely rendered detail is intended to provide the viewer insight into layers of meaning.