Visiting Artists Talk: Jessica “JB” Burke & Kariann Fuqua
Schedule
Thu Sep 12 2024 at 02:30 pm to 05:30 pm
Location
McKnight Art Center | Wichita, KS
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Location: Room 210, McKnight Art CenterThe School of Art, Design and Creative Industries will be hosting Clayton Staples Visiting Artists Jessica “JB” Burke and Kariann Fuqua for a panel discussion in conjunction with their collaborative exhibition "A World Away."
The panel, facilitated by Robert Bubp, will run from 2:30 - 4 PM, with a reception to immediately follow until 5:30 PM. This event is free and open to the public.
Jessica “JB” Burke (b. 1976, Kansas) is an LGBT+ artist and educator working in North Carolina. She is an Associate Professor of Art and Foundations Coordinator at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Working across installation, drawing and digital media, she examines world-building and its relationship with issues of identity. The formal and conceptual elements of her work draw from sources ranging from children’s literature, brutalist architecture, food styling, baroque excess, the domestic space and osteology. Her complex, layered, and exquisitely executed creations invite the viewer to consider objects as emblematic of personal and collective experiences. She is an award-winning artist whose work has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work has been included in competitive group and solo exhibitions that include the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina; the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts in Tallahassee, Florida; the Toshima Gallery in Tokyo, Japan and the LuXun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. She has been an artist-in residence in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Cork, Ireland; Key West, Florida; Cove Park, Scotland and in Budapest, Hungary . Her drawings have been published in Manifest's International Drawing Annual (INDA) 13; Studio Visit Magazine; North Light Book's Strokes of Genius 9: The Best of Drawing and Art for Everyone, a textbook from University Press.
Kariann Fuqua (b. 1976, Oklahoma) is an abstract artist using drawing and painting to investigate the edges of environmental disaster. She received her BFA in painting from Kansas State University and an MFA in painting from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her work has been widely exhibited in solo and group shows across the United States including Jenkins-Johnson Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Governors Island (New York, NY), Hyde Park Arts Center (Chicago, IL), Byron Cohen Gallery (Kansas City, MO), Manifest Gallery and Drawing Center(Cincinnati, OH), Athens Institute of Contemporary Art (Athens, GA), Mississippi Museum of Art (Jackson, MS) and was awarded a public commission at McCormick Place (Chicago, IL). She received a Joan Mitchell Foundation full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission, and her work was published in New American Paintings and the Artist’s Magazine. She currently lives and works in Oxford, Mississippi where she is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Art and Director of Museum Studies at the University of Mississippi.
This project has been supported by a
grant from the Wichita Arts Council.
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