Linda Burnham’s painterly formalism progresses along its own idiosyncratic lines. Intellectually rigorous, sensuous, and immediate, Burnham creates multi-layered surfaces on found grounds such as tablecloths, doilies, and the unfinished canvases of her late husband. Combining stock images from 1950’s advertising with a variety of painting languages, Burnham addresses notions of gender and nostalgia as they relate to labor, abstraction and ornamentation. |
