August 15, 2018 - January 31, 2019
Diane Burko blurs the lines between art, science, and the environment. Since 2006, her practice has been devoted to communicating climate change issues. She synthesizes information from her own on-site investigations together with data gathered from research and meetings with scientists into a range of media including paintings, photography, and video. Her goal is to further the conversation about how our natural world is being challenged by climate change.
For more than a decade, she has documented the dramatic disappearance of glaciers with large-scale paintings and photographs developed in close collaboration with glaciologists. She has made expeditions in Svalbard, Norway, Greenland, Argentina, New Zealand, and Antarctica as part of her study of polar landscapes. In the past year, Burko has turned her attention toward the impact of climate change on coral reef systems around the world, traveling to Hawaii, American Samoa, and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to learn from marine biologists and to see first-hand how increasing ocean temperatures, sea-level rise, and ocean acidification are affecting coral reef systems. In her paintings, prints, and video she uses material as metaphor to evoke movement, the passage of time, and the fragility of these endangered landscapes. This exhibition will, for the first time, feature her new reef paintings together with her glacier paintings.
Born in Brooklyn and based in Philadelphia, Burko has exhibited her paintings and photography widely throughout the United States in a career spanning nearly 50 years. About her climate-focused work, Burko states, “I don’t want to frighten people away. I want to celebrate these places and ecosystems, and then through the celebration and through reminding people about ecological signs and warnings, communicate that there’s an underlying issue: that we have to protect nature and we’re the ones who are directly involved in destroying it.”
underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.
IP Address: 3.129.13.201 -- Domain: Amazon Technologies
I love well-behaved spiders! They are, in fact, how most people find my site. Unfortunately, my network has a limited bandwidth and pictures take up bandwidth. Spiders ask for lots and lots of pages and chew up lots and lots of bandwidth which slows things down considerably for regular folk. To counter this, you'll see all the text on the page but the images are being suppressed. Also, some system options like merges are being blocked for you.
Note: Permission is NOT granted for spiders, robots, etc to use the site for AI-generation purposes. I'm sure you're thrilled by your ability to make revenue from my work but there's nothing in that for my human users or for me.
If you are in fact human, please email me at guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can check if your designation was made in error. Given your number of hits, that's unlikely but what the hell.
") are described as follows: