Amanda Burnham

Amanda Burnham

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2011: From the Land of Pleasant Living

Amanda Burnham makes drawings and drawing installations based on her explorations of and encounters with the city. Often working on site, outside or in her car, she reads the landscape for found fragments of language and record the poetics of vacant lots, moveable type signs, billboards, and rowhouses with ink and other water media on paper. Burnham often pieces fragments together in a cumulative manner not unlike the way the urban landscape is collectively authored over time. Her drawing installations expand upon these explorations, layering and stitching together found visual elements of the landscape in conversation with the site against which they have been displaced, using paint, artificial turf, concrete, sand, and trash directly on the wall.

Amanda Burnham’s work has been exhibited widely. In Baltimore, Maryland she has participated in solo and group exhibitions at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson, Julio Art Gallery (Loyola University), the Gormley Art Gallery (The College of Notre Dame of Maryland), the Pinkard Gallery (MICA), School 33 Art Center, the Silber Gallery (Goucher College), and the Stamp Gallery (the University of Maryland at College Park). Other selected venues include Christina Ray Gallery (New York, NY), GV/AS Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Harrington Arts (San Francisco, CA), The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, and the Cranbrook Institute of Art. Amanda holds BA and MFA degrees from Harvard and Yale (respectively) and is currently an Assistant Professor at Towson University.