September 4 - October 6, 2001
An accidental happening - a video recorder left running while on a trip to London - inspires this body of work; the tape captured unfocused washes of color and the random beauty of her travels around town. BURNS then began shooting dozens of rolls of film and resisted consciously framing each shot. In doing so, her editing and printing processes become key aspects of this body of work, revealing her keen sense of composition and color. In these photos she holds an image which encapsulates the full experience of the instant.
In this, her fourth one-person exhibition at the Charles Cowles Gallery, BURNS departs from her celebrated portraits which established her as an important photographer of our time. Deeply personal for the stories both told and only hinted at, these photos capture a moment in a specific lifetime, in very much the same sense as the works in this current exhibition.
BURNS's photographs are in distinguished museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Seattle Art Museum; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
The exhibition will be on view at the Charles Cowles Gallery, 537 West 24th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea. Hours are 10am to 6pm, Tuesday through Saturday.
There will be a reception for the artist on Tuesday, September 11, from 6-8 pm.