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In her most recent series of pastel and colored pencil drawings, Laura Burke magnifies banal moments to make them extraordinary. Each piece has a contained element to it, holding expressive and painterly marks inside a deliberate edge. Vibrant, mushy pastels contrast with saturated and precise pencil, mirroring landscapes contained within windows, vessels and flowers. The process of making each piece is meditative and unplanned. The work is built out and balanced as it progresses, prioritizing pattern and color theory. Burke’s main intention behind the work is for the viewer to be held in something familiar but unknown, questioning the line between inside and outside.

Burke was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Her background is in printmaking, specifically large scale screen printing, but has since shifted focus to drawing. She is currently based in Brooklyn, NYC.