The past speaks to us through the ritual of storytelling. I think of myself as a bard; singing a story in an ancient language with fragments of words sounding like something familiar. The result is a play with time and purpose. Through a connection to the collective human heritage I take personal and universal stories combining them to tell tales of creation. These stories translate into installations that emulate a natural history museum and sci-fi sets. My installations are organized to be lived with, often incorporating private spaces for meditation.
I recently became a mother: a woman and a key player in the cycle of life. The stories I am telling are sometimes very personal; secrets that only my son will understand (akin to a twin-language.) But a home is the nucleus for evolution and is traditionally the woman’s role to create that environment. The tools for house-work like bowls and the physical labor associated with creating such an environment is a universal language and I use those references as points of connections. Objects become ritualized and fetishized through their connotations.
Everything I make I think of as an object- from video to drawings to huts. Objects are created from basic materials that mimic ideas and icons from times past or times imagined. The use of basic materials is important to creating that fragment of understanding- that connection to the viewer with the familiar mixed with unanswered questions. When life has passed, ritual objects are left behind: what do others want to take with them, what do they think they will need to re-enact the ritual of living? My lens is distorted as I place myself in the past looking at the future looking at our past.
My sources are varied: a snapshot of the computer screen from a T.V. show with a compelling composition, a theory of reading, an item from a scientific magazine, my son's play, or just piles of materials that I have gathered. I take all of these sources - intellectual and physical - and then sit down to piece them all together as in a conspiracy theory, making connections that were never intended.
Contact:
aimee.burg@gmail.com
Education:
MFA Sculpture, Yale School Of Art, 2010
Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, France, Summer 2004
BFA Sculpture, Pratt Institute, 2005
Solo Exhibitions:
Magicker of the Solutional Cave, Auxiliary Projects, Brooklyn, NY, March 2015
vault, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY May 2012
Group Exhibitions:
Urban Enchantments, Spinning Plate Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA June 2015
Imaginary Monuments, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY April 2015
In, Side- Throughout, Bosi Contemporary, New York, NY, September 2014
Generations IX: The Red/Pink Show, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY December 2013
Possible, UnSmoke Artspace, Braddock, PA May 2013
Small Shrines, Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA April 2013
Single Fare 3, RH Gallery, New York, NY February 2013
Detours of the Possible, part of the Brooklyn/Montréal event, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY January 2013
Les Détoures du Possible, part of the Brooklyn/Montréal event, Les Territoires, Montréal, Canada October 2012
Local Builders, A-Space Gallery, West Haven, CT May 2012
Flying Machines, The Headkeeper, Greensburg, PA April 2012
Exploded Views, John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT January 2012
Generations 8, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY December 2011
Worm, Cooper’s, New Haven, CT October 2011
All Jokes Aside, ArtLot, Brooklyn, NY June 2011
Colored Cactus, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY March 2011
Exhibition One, Stockroom, New Haven, CT, October 2010
MFA/USA, Bezalel School of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, July 2010
Sculpture MFA: Part Two, Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT March 2010
LABA’s Guests, The New 14th Street Y, New York, NY January 2010
Spctclr Vws, Brooklyn One, Brooklyn, NY, May 2009
Emerging Artist Series- Greenhouse Project, Roanoke Public Library, Roanoke, VA April 2008
Hocus Pocus, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ, April 2008
Femmevolution II, Bar Niagara, New York, NY, November 2007
Atlantic Avenue ARTWALK, Brooklyn, NY, June 2007
NYC Underwater, Bar Niagara, New York, NY, March 2007
S&M, Bar Niagara, New York, NY, February 2007
D.U.M.B.O. Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY, October 2005
Residencies:
Vermont Studio Center, March 2008
Honors & Awards:
The Paddy Johnson Award, A.I.R. Gallery, January 2014
Emma Bee Bearnstein Fellow, A.I.R. Gallery, 2011-2012
Goerge R. Bunker Award, Yale School of Art, May 2010
Nominated for the Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Art Fellowship
Foam Magazine Upcycle Competition, for Greenhouse Project, June 2008
Co-Curator @ Art Lot, Brooklyn 2012-present
Other Exhibitions Curated:
Diversions, Institute Library Gallery, New Haven, CT July 2013
Tabula Rasa, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ Aug/Sept 2012
Colored Cactus, curated w/ Tamar Ettun, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY March 2011
Fantasy World, Brooklyn Artist’s Gym, Brooklyn, NY, October 2007
And Then Some, 3rd Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, March 2006
I recently became a mother: a woman and a key player in the cycle of life. The stories I am telling are sometimes very personal; secrets that only my son will understand (akin to a twin-language.) But a home is the nucleus for evolution and is traditionally the woman’s role to create that environment. The tools for house-work like bowls and the physical labor associated with creating such an environment is a universal language and I use those references as points of connections. Objects become ritualized and fetishized through their connotations.
Everything I make I think of as an object- from video to drawings to huts. Objects are created from basic materials that mimic ideas and icons from times past or times imagined. The use of basic materials is important to creating that fragment of understanding- that connection to the viewer with the familiar mixed with unanswered questions. When life has passed, ritual objects are left behind: what do others want to take with them, what do they think they will need to re-enact the ritual of living? My lens is distorted as I place myself in the past looking at the future looking at our past.
My sources are varied: a snapshot of the computer screen from a T.V. show with a compelling composition, a theory of reading, an item from a scientific magazine, my son's play, or just piles of materials that I have gathered. I take all of these sources - intellectual and physical - and then sit down to piece them all together as in a conspiracy theory, making connections that were never intended.
Contact:
aimee.burg@gmail.com
Education:
MFA Sculpture, Yale School Of Art, 2010
Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, France, Summer 2004
BFA Sculpture, Pratt Institute, 2005
Solo Exhibitions:
Magicker of the Solutional Cave, Auxiliary Projects, Brooklyn, NY, March 2015
vault, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY May 2012
Group Exhibitions:
Urban Enchantments, Spinning Plate Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA June 2015
Imaginary Monuments, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY April 2015
In, Side- Throughout, Bosi Contemporary, New York, NY, September 2014
Generations IX: The Red/Pink Show, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY December 2013
Possible, UnSmoke Artspace, Braddock, PA May 2013
Small Shrines, Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA April 2013
Single Fare 3, RH Gallery, New York, NY February 2013
Detours of the Possible, part of the Brooklyn/Montréal event, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY January 2013
Les Détoures du Possible, part of the Brooklyn/Montréal event, Les Territoires, Montréal, Canada October 2012
Local Builders, A-Space Gallery, West Haven, CT May 2012
Flying Machines, The Headkeeper, Greensburg, PA April 2012
Exploded Views, John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT January 2012
Generations 8, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY December 2011
Worm, Cooper’s, New Haven, CT October 2011
All Jokes Aside, ArtLot, Brooklyn, NY June 2011
Colored Cactus, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY March 2011
Exhibition One, Stockroom, New Haven, CT, October 2010
MFA/USA, Bezalel School of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, July 2010
Sculpture MFA: Part Two, Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT March 2010
LABA’s Guests, The New 14th Street Y, New York, NY January 2010
Spctclr Vws, Brooklyn One, Brooklyn, NY, May 2009
Emerging Artist Series- Greenhouse Project, Roanoke Public Library, Roanoke, VA April 2008
Hocus Pocus, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ, April 2008
Femmevolution II, Bar Niagara, New York, NY, November 2007
Atlantic Avenue ARTWALK, Brooklyn, NY, June 2007
NYC Underwater, Bar Niagara, New York, NY, March 2007
S&M, Bar Niagara, New York, NY, February 2007
D.U.M.B.O. Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY, October 2005
Residencies:
Vermont Studio Center, March 2008
Honors & Awards:
The Paddy Johnson Award, A.I.R. Gallery, January 2014
Emma Bee Bearnstein Fellow, A.I.R. Gallery, 2011-2012
Goerge R. Bunker Award, Yale School of Art, May 2010
Nominated for the Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Art Fellowship
Foam Magazine Upcycle Competition, for Greenhouse Project, June 2008
Co-Curator @ Art Lot, Brooklyn 2012-present
Other Exhibitions Curated:
Diversions, Institute Library Gallery, New Haven, CT July 2013
Tabula Rasa, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ Aug/Sept 2012
Colored Cactus, curated w/ Tamar Ettun, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY March 2011
Fantasy World, Brooklyn Artist’s Gym, Brooklyn, NY, October 2007
And Then Some, 3rd Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, March 2006
