Artist Statement

Amanda Burk’s studio practice is situated in drawing. Recently, she has been focusing on a body of work that captures the human subject in a moment away. This moment she has defined as a slip or departure from consciousness – a single instant where the subject loses an awareness of self and surroundings. Burk is fascinated by the very nature of this away moment, when the subject is neither absent nor present but suspended exactly in between the two.

Currently she is in the midst of a new body of figurative graphite drawings on panel exploring the connection between pattern and consciousness, and more specifically pattern as a possible trigger or reflection of a meditative state.