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Ainsley Burrows

 

Raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and Brooklyn, New York, Ainsley Burrows is a multidisciplinary artist whose upbringing is in the foreground of his art. His work references the many lessons, stories, historical figures, events, movements, and diasporas that have shaped his perspective.

 

Burrows uses sweeping brushstrokes to create curving lines with abstract figures that flow into one another to represent the complexity of immigration and the tumultuous path to belonging. His paintings emerge from layer upon layer until he achieves his perfect final composition from an alchemic process where images are deconstructed and reimagined.

 

Burrows mainly uses three methodologies he has created and developed, adding his unique language to the abstract expressionist cannon. Neo Chaos is characterized by expressive gestures and lines, and deep, passionate swaths of color. Raktism is his search for the fourth dimension, characterized by boundaries, echoes, repetition, and experimentation with leaps of time and space on a 2D canvas. String Theory uses exaggerated motions that sometimes require full body movement. “Ainsley’s abstraction unfolds a deliberate yet fluid hand,” says curator Kirk Shannon- Butts. His spirited personality is the genesis of his art and the basis of his creativity. The result is vibrant, kinetic, and full of his life’s lessons and possesses a profound self-awareness that is integral to the production and process of Ainsley’s art practice.”

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