– Switch to page 2 for the Italian version –
Influenced by anachronistic images of fashion and personal objects, Angela Burson – a visual artist born in Liberty, Missouri, now living and working in Savannah, Georgia – paints accurate and balanced representations of people who appear like mannequins, headless to emphasize a surreal sense of disorientation. Objects from the past reappear in her brightly colored pastel paintings, with a flat coloring that makes her works small gems of creative essence.
Inspired by family objects and photographs, antique furnishings from a past that the artist feels close to and wants to reinterpret, she arranges everything in a balance that meticulously balances shapes and colors, a search for traditions that makes them vivid and current. But even movie images can become suggestions, like “Asteroid City,” Wes Anderson’s latest, where sequential shots resemble paintings of an imaginative reality akin to the one dreamt and represented by Angela Burson.
“Shirts, empty dresses, bandaged arms, headless torsos, a suitcase, a cat, a toy, an empty room: all become symbols, offering us glimpses into the complexity of identity and the possibilities existing in the relationships between objects.”
Details of two-tone shoes, a hand holding a lit cigarette, elegant men in pinstripe suits enjoying Martinis or taking a Polaroid in stylish white boxer shorts. Women travel with our mothers’ handbags, a detailed sequence of how we used to be, an elegance where skirts, jackets, shoes, and postures define a feminine universe that, intriguing us, brings us back to a visionary elegance.
Angela Burson, a visual artist who works in painting, drawing, sculpture, and embroidery, earned her B.F.A. from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has exhibited not only in the United States, for example at Hashimoto Contemporary (LA and New York), Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, but also at Galería Rafael Pérez Hernando, Madrid, Spain, and Galleria Most, Podgorica, Montenegro. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Create Magazine’s Women’s Issue, Frankie Magazine, and Paprika Southern
