Burian goes mixed media

From staff reports

For her eleventh consecutive solo show at Center Gallery in Glen Arbor, Maple City painter Margo Burian breaks with her tradition of landscape painting, and for the first time shows a group of mixed media abstracted paintings on panel. This exhibition of new works opens Friday, July 6, with a 6 p.m. reception.

Burian has traditionally worked in oil paint. In these new works, she explores water-based media including acrylic paint, graphite, collage and image transfer. “The paintings are deeply layered and consist of multiple sessions in the studio,” she said. “They’re derived from a combination of observation, memory, sketch, and photo reference. Often times the original image becomes lost in the layering process until it becomes a separate image onto itself.”

Center Gallery’s show of work by Margo Burian continues through July 12. Center Gallery is open daily from 11 a.m.- 5 p.m. For more information visit LakeStreetStudiosGlenArbor.com, or call 231-334-3179.