Long View Presents Thomas Burkett

Tonight (September 1, 2011), Long View Gallery celebrates the opening of its latest show with a reception from 6:30 to 8:30. The show, called Containment and Diversion, features works by Thomas Burkett. The show will run from now until October 2.

From the gallery's press release:

Long View Gallery is pleased to announce Containment and Diversion, featuring approximately 15 mixed media works on paper by Washington-based artist Thomas Burkett. This marks the first solo show of Burkett’s young career. Thomas’ work explores topics currently headlining news stories around the country. Wide spread water shortages in much of the south caused by the breakdown of manmade containment and diversion equipment, exemplifies his belief in our inability to exact control over nature.

Growing up in the grandeur of the Western United States, Thomas Burkett gleaned an impression of invincibility and an air of confidence that abundant land resources is a right of passage. Now, as an outside observer, he realizes his Utopian West is both a place of grandeur and illusion. An urban identity now confronts his notion of abundance with the reality of a water crisis and a realization that we have settled in an environment that challenges our subversive tactics of control. Determined to examine our control of water, the work in Containment and Diversion portrays the damming, diverting, and polluting of water – life’s most vital substance.

Long View Gallery
1234 Ninth Street, NW
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