SHAWN BURKARD
Phantasmagoria
(Front Room)
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Influenced at once by horror movies, gothic novels, and such dark folklore as the Brothers Grimm, Shawn Burkard's work makes visible a legacy of cultural darkness. Burkard photographs scenes of his own construction, whose uncanny attributes of light, scale, and physiognomy recall nothing so much as the psychological space of fairytalesand the nightmares such tales once provoked in all of us.
Within each of his photographs, Burkard creates a fantastical but convincing storybook world. The artist meticulously plans the lighting and staging, hand crafts the settings, makeup, and costumes for the bizarre characters he plays in each supernatural scene. Though the artist manipulates his film images by hand, they remain untouched by digital alterations. Burkard invites us into a realm of disturbing visions whose creative vitality is understood once we recognize how close these dreamworlds may be to our own. Shawn Burkard is based in St. Louis.
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