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10/10/2007

Colin Burns

McCaig-Welles Gallery, New York

Autumn Bloom

MCCAIG-WELLES is pleased to present an exhibition of new mixed media collages and paintings by Colin Burns. This will be Burn’s first solo show at McCaig-Welles and will feature an installation of new large scale works on rice paper. Burns is considered a printmaker but with a painterly aesthetic and a painter’s approach. Incorporating brushwork, Burns applies collage and paper, diligently layering his palette with bold colors and rich texture.

Featured in this exhibition are a series of printed linocuts on rice and tissue paper, hanging delicately from clothespins from the ceiling of the gallery. These paper works are light, fragile and multitudinous, diffusing the light and creating a myriad of shadows and forms throughout the space. To the artist, these clustered works invoke images of “fields of flowers and sad, fragile flags” (Burns)

Burns latest works contain motifs and themes he has been exploring for a while, including but not limited to: trees, women, flowers, the Manson girls, California adolescence, Hollywood, belief systems and his brand new experiences with parenthood. This most recent collection of work has been heavily influenced by Dario Argento's film "Suspiria" and The Small Face's album "Autumn Stone". His work is primarily figurative, informed largely by film and music and an obssession with late 60's early 70's American history and culture.

Born in 1966, in Boston, MA, Burns studied studio art at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. He has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, and Chicago and is a founding member of the renowned and acclaimed collaborative, The Goldmine Shithouse. He now lives and works in Los Angeles, with his wife, son and two Chihuahuas.

Opening reception: October 11, 2007 7-10pm

McCaig-Welles Gallery
129 Roebling Street, Brooklyn
Free admission

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