Brian Burris

Brian Burris has been painting for over twenty years. He is a primitive, in the sense that he is self-taught.

Originally, he more closely identified with the abstract expressionists, with the emphasis on the 'automatic' or subconscious act of painting, the accompanying emotional intensity and the anti-figurative, sometimes violent and grotesque aesthetic; sometimes violent and grotesque life.

After a seven-year hiatus, Mr. Burris returned to painting and segued into the more minimalist style seen in color field painters like Clyfford Still, Rothko, and Barnett Newman.  Burris began to explore the parallel themes of the spiritual, and the unconscious
mind, reflected in the painting process itself progressing according to both the will of the subconscious and the properties of paint and canvas, letting the execution and the subject matter become analogous to the unconscious psyche
asserting and expressing itself, where unconscious meets chance, spirituality borders on psychology,
and the implications of archetypal awareness and gnostic meaning surface through the medium.