Stories Retold Burns - Gerald Peters

Opening Reception with the artist: Friday, March 14, 5-7pm

Evan Feldman
Director
efeldman@gpgallery.com

A MacDowell fellow and Pollock-Krasner award recipient, Maurice Burns (b. 1937) weaves together ideas and iconography from the Harlem Renaissance, Pop Art, and the School of London in pursuit of a cultural territory unbound by 20th-century conceptions of racial identity and the conventions of high culture. As Burns remixes art history and pop culture on his postmodern canvases, a distinctly personal imaginary emerges––one as complex and uncompromising as the jazz legends, Native American chiefs, mathematicians, and everyday people who populate his world.

Maurice Burns

Buffalo Soldier 1992
oil on canvas
48 x 44 inches

Maurice Burns

Man in a White Suit 1993
oil on canvas
76 x 56 inches

Maurice Burns

Themes for a Small Library
oil on canvas
48 x 45 inches

Maurice Burns

In Walked Bud (diptych)
oil on canvas
76 x 114 inches

Maurice Burns

Havana 2019-2020
oil on canvas
56 x 76 inches

Maurice Burns

Warrior's Cup 1993-2018
oil on canvas
76 x 56 inches