Emory Visual Arts Gallery - Fall Exhibit (tuesdays)

From the venue:

Lindsay Burke: Quick Split

On view: October 9 to December 12, 2025

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 9, 5-8 pm
Artist Talk : Saturday, October 11, 2-4 pm

Location: 700 Peavine Creek Dr. Atlanta, GA 30322

The Emory Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present "Quick Split", an exhibition of paintings by Brooklyn-based artist, Lindsay Burke.  

Burke’s paintings approach the human body as both image and structure, a ground where personal, cultural, and formal questions converge. Her work moves between the poetic and the schematic, presenting the figure as something at once familiar and estranged.

Referencing art history, industrial design, and architectural drawing, Burke places the body in a constant state of negotiation. Forms slip between abstraction and representation, echoing the ways identity is assembled, performed, and dissolved. Figures often appear on the edge of transformation—mechanical and organic, vulnerable and resilient—framing the body as a site of emotional intensity, political tension, and imaginative possibility.

Surface and structure hold equal weight in her practice. Expansive painterly passages give way to exacting line, underscoring the instability of perception. Femininity emerges as a central but shifting signifier, inviting reflection on the tensions between autonomy and constraint, joy and unease, presence and absence.

In Quick Split, these investigations come together as a vision of the human form both fragmented and whole. Burke’s paintings ask us to consider the fragile balance between control and surrender, the interplay of inner life and outward expression, and the evolving language of the body in contemporary culture.

About the Artist

Lindsay Burke (b. 1991, Ames, Iowa) is a Brooklyn-based painter whose practice is deeply rooted in the embodied, the surreal, and the tactile. She earned her BFA from the University of Iowa in 2014 and her MFA from Hunter College, New York, in 2017. She has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Shandaken Paint School, ACI Artist Residency Corciano, and The Macedonia Institute, and was awarded the Kossak Painting Travel Grant.

Burke has presented solo exhibitions including Stain Maker at Marinaro Gallery, New York (2024), Rough Cut at Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles (2023), A Shift in the House (2021), and Weird Ways (2018), both at Marinaro Gallery in New York. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at Hive Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing), Shulamit Nazarian (Los Angeles), The Flag Art Foundation (New York), Underdonk Gallery (Brooklyn), Lyles & King (New York), Martos (New York), Helena Anrather (New York), Bosse & Baum (London), Thierry Goldberg (New York), PARISTEXASLA (Los Angeles), and others.