Gary Burnley: The Known World
The Known World
September 2 - October 2, 2021
Blue Sky is pleased to announce the 2020 Critical Mass Solo Exhibition, The Known World by Gary Burnley. In his series of unique photo-collages, Burnley constructs images that layer our memory with revered representations of beauty, power, influence, identity and social status into unlikely, chance encounters with other images. Burnley's intention is to craft alternative parables that invade and challenge the immortality and purity of long-held Western cultural profiles, ideals, and attitudes
Gary Burnley, Hudson, 2018
Gary Burnley, Kenisha, 2019
Gary Burnley (American, b.1950) received a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from Yale University. A Photolucida Critical Mass 2020 Top 50 Selection, Burnley was the 2020 Blue Sky Solo Show Winner. His work is part of museum and private collections including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, and Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN. Solo and group exhibitions include Aperture Gallery, NYC, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, NYC, SALON, Florence, Italy, among others. Burnley has been the recipient of artist fellowships and commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, the State of Connecticut, New York State Council on the Arts, Creative Artist Public Service Program, NYC, The MTA, NYC and Bi-State Development, Saint Louis, Missouri.
In the News
Seeing Double: Double-exposure photographs by Mike Vos, Dinh Q. Lê and Gary Burnley speak to our polarized times and expand our consciousness, Brian Libby for Oregon Arts Watch