Danielle Bursk

Bio

Danielle Bursk lives and works in Bucks County and Philadelphia, PA. She is married to artist Justin Bursk and they have two children. Danielle makes art about accumulation and connection, concentrating primarily in drawing/painting and performance/video. She is known for her large-scale abstract ink drawings and her audience-interactive performances.

Danielle received her MFA from Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2006 and her BFA from Temple University's Tyler School of Art in 1995. She has shown regionally quite extensively, and has been reviewed in publications such as the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Pittsburgh City Paper. Ms. Bursk has been selected for a Fleisher Challenge exhibition, a solo show at Abington Art Center, a fellowship to Vermont Studio Center and a CDP Fellowship at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists. Recently she exhibited Danielle Bursk:Ways and Means at 110 Church Gallery in Philadelphia. Danielle is pleased to also list shows at Locks Gallery (Philadelphia), The Main Line Arts Center (Haverford, PA) and the Texas Firehouse (NY,NY) amongst other venues on her resume.

Statement

"My work is primarily abstract and incremental. The accumulation of many small lines creates abstract forms that are suggestive of objects or landscapes. I relate the drawings to many things: nests, networks, webs, traps, nets, hair, vines, space, maps and more. I also consider the works to speak to the interconnectivity of actions and associations. I frequently relate the action of making marks with the repetitive actions of my daily life. Seen separately, they have little consequence, but when overlapped and accumulated they become something of value.  

I mainly choose to work in large dimensions because the scale allows the viewer to feel as if the objects in the drawings could be physically approached. The feeling that one could be softly supported or entangled and trapped by the objects I draw interests me. The dichotomy of the feelings of softness and stiffness, harmless and ensnaring, recognizable and abstract is reminiscent to me of people’s relationships and interactions with each other. Like interactions, the drawings are both welcoming and frightening at the same time."

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