About
Lucy Burton is a multidisciplinary artist from Indianapolis, IN currently residing in San Antonio, TX. She received her BFA in Fibers from Indiana University. As an enjoyer of tedium, she groks with many of the traditional processes under the fiber arts umbrella; but as an enjoyer of novelty, she prefers to express her work using unconventional materials. Weaving using fishing line, as an example. While her medium often shifts depending on the content of the piece, this frame of tedium and novelty applies across her practice.
Many of the ideas Burton espouses come from threads of ideas in the work of others. With two literary namesakes, and readers for parents, it is often in the collected words of another where she will snag on a notion worth exploring. She uses both materials and imagery as her data for communicating these explorations, each responding to the call of the work.
Burton is currently interested in the idea of our finitude as humans in an age which seems to encourage us to stretch ourselves to infinity. She is interested in the structures, rhythms, and proclivities which foster this culture, and the all important question of why? Why do we want to do, and to have it all? Why do we desire infinity? And is it what we were made for?
Curriculum vitae
Solo Shows
2024 - Bright Coffee, A Study in Gravity, San Antonio, TX
2020 - Harrison Center for the Arts, Hearth, Indianapolis, IN
2019 - Grunwald Gallery of Art, Confessions of a Joy Seeker, Bloomington, IN
2019 - Harrison Center for the Arts, Souvenirs: Collection III, Indianapolis, IN
Group Shows
2024 - Bright Coffee, Creatures for a Community, San Antonio, TX
2023 - Kelso Art Center, FASA’s TEXtiles, San Antonio, TX - juried by Mary Heathcott
2021 - Harrison Center for the Arts, Hanging by a Thread, Indianapolis, IN
2020 - John Waldron Gallery, National Society of Arts and Letters Show, Bloomington, IN
2019 - Grunwald Gallery, Remembering and Forgetting, Bloomington, IN
2019 - John Waldron Gallery, National Society of Arts and Letters Show, Bloomington, IN
Installations
2019 - Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Poured Out / Filled Up, Indianapolis, IN
Press & Publication
2020 - Lucy Burton: “Hearth” & “Confessions of a Joy Seeker”, Harrison Center Blog
Honors
2020 - Reva Shriner Memorial Award in Visual Arts
2019 - Windgate Fellowship Nominee
Education
2019 - BFA in Fibers, Indiana University