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Demetri Burke, 6398, Acrylic, charcoal, thread, ink and found images on canvas, 2019

Demetri Burke is a young artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. Currently, he attends Georgia State University as a BFA candidate with a concentration in drawing, painting, and printmaking. Most recently, during Art Basel week in Miami, he showcased his work in the YoungArts alumni group show, Within Interdependence, curated by Deanna Haggag of United States Artists. He uses mixed media, including charcoal, acrylic paint, and found images, to express narratives of identity and race on canvas. Abstraction, montage, and realistic rendering are key parts in his creation process. 

Never fully standing still for too long, his body of art work is diverse and fluid. Sometimes focusing intensely on the black figure; other times, building up layer after layer to create murky images of nostalgia in a southern lens, Burke creates an amalgamation of differing motifs and thoughts. However, everything is combined in its intimacy with the viewer, the depiction of the blackness, and narratives that wrestle with trauma and affection.

Everything is unified in the fact that he is capturing the world he grew up in along with the world he inhabits now. Constantly examining, his work showcases his findings: black like the skin, still like the clouds, hopeful like his mother’s smile.

Demetri Burke is a young artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. He uses mixed media, including charcoal, acrylic paint, and found images, to express narratives of identity and race on canvas. Abstraction, montage, and realistic rendering are key parts in his creation process. Recently, during Art Basel week in Miami, he showcased his work in the YoungArts alumni group show, Within Interdependence, curated by Deanna Haggag of United States Artists. Currently, he attends Georgia State University as a BFA candidate with a concentration in drawing, painting, and printmaking.

deartburke@gmail.com

Instagram: @demetri.stefan

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