Glenn Burke's latest portrait series brings a social media consciousness that both questions and celebrates the idea of people. Like an inner voice that examines oneself, how do these images inform us? He finds a comfortable balance between realism and painterly expressive brushwork that allows the viewer room to enter the images with their own ideas. Inspired by a Gerhard Richter show that included black and white portraits, he wondered what can be said in portraiture that hasn't been said in the past two thousand years? Face IT is the result of that search.
Beneath the painting or drawing there is most often a social anthropologic theme to the work like; the outsider looking in, uncomfortable social spaces, the lone ark of a life or the shared voyage of an individual. Sometimes there isn't.
Education
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA / Graphic Design / Illustration
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA / BFA