KIMBERLEY BURSIC
Afrania (Quiet place), 2024, Intaglio, mono print, relief w/ chine collé, 22” x 22”
Enfold #8, 2022, Drypoint with chine collé, 10” x 10”
Interrupted (Dahlia), 2021, screen print, acrylic and graphite on canvas, 48” x 56”
Untitled #1 On the Corner, 2021, screen print, collagraph, chine collé, with acrylic on paper, 35” x 22”
Untitled #5 Here, 2021, screen print, collagraph, chine collé, acrylic on paper, 47” x 22”
ARTIST STATEMENT
My art conveys a personal view of living and the creative struggle to articulate it. It is a place to be an insomniac, for memories, a place of destruction and perseverance. Juxtaposed shapes, colors and material processes disrupt the reading of the piece; like an interrupted thought or conversation. The imagery is yielding to some other thing insisting on attention, where one is left with a vague idea of meaning and distraction.
Using symbolic language that reference nature, time, weather, blooming, deterioration, views from land and space, refer to what I am internalizing and observing. Layered over a grid, these fluid shapes and memories are pinned down, trapped within the printed lines. There are mechanics of order and logic, and a sense of place, yet the organic forms come in and out of view, defying the order, undermining sense and logic, like an interrupted conversation or thought. Within all of these allusions there is space for the observer to find something relatable.
I build a painting just as a print; layer upon layer of ink, paper, and paint. I combine and layer the printmaking processes of etching, collagraph and chine collé on paper, working the paint over the print, integrating the shapes over the layered image. The same etching plate, chine collé and colors are used throughout the series, engraining layers of memories, meaning and time into the artwork.
-Kimberley Bursic, June 2022.