Lindsay Burke

"Lindsay Burke’s paintings and drawings often involve the creation of android-like figures as strategies for catharsis. By making a replica to embody what a feeling looks like on someone else, they can wear the scars, tears, and ruptures functionally so we don’t have to. With these body doubles there’s a hope, perhaps implicit in all art making, that meaning might be revealed. Except by the time you get to what you’ve been waiting for—the event, the completed project—you’ve changed and so the thing you’re looking for has changed. It’s not the same because you aren’t the same. Burke’s work explores the nature of point-of-view and interpretation, but it’s also about personal agency. It has to be futuristic to have a place to live out and sustain the expectations of being a woman, daughter, friend, partner, person. Inventing figures born from pipes, illusionistic and abstract backgrounds, or art history itself, allows for the itchiness of some feelings to exist exquisitely and matter-of-factly in other, less burdened bodies."