UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
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MessageBurns obtained her MFA in 2013 from Claremont Graduate University in California. She is an installation artist as well as a photographer. She has also experimented with performance. All of her work revolves around physical objects and their placement in space. “My installations and photographs explore the ways in which objects and places shape our awareness,” she wrote in the statement that accompanied her thesis in 2013. “Objects carry a physical and emotional weight that can take energy to maintain … I think of these objects as relating to the perception of our selves and our place in systems and institutions and societal structures that we are constantly forced to navigate … Similar to the way my body functions, the locations and objects I choose are unique and at the same time, anonymous.”