Jessica Burko has been a working photographer since 1985 and has exhibited her photographic work in solo and group shows throughout the United States. Burko is originally from Philadelphia, PA, and currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. As an artist, independent curator, arts marketer, and graphic designer, Burko divides her time between working in her studio in Boston’s South End neighborhood, and working on-site with artists and arts organizations.
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Recent exhibitions of Burko’s photography based, mixed-media work include: New Voices, Gallery 181, Lawrence, MA; Among Us and Curious, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR; Open Call/Size Matters, RHYS Gallery, Boston, MA; Small Works: Spirits and Shrines, Fiber Art Center, Amherst, MA, and several of Burko’s images have been recently published in Room Of One’s Own, Vancouver, BC, and in PennMed Magazine, Philadelphia, PA.
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The images in Jessica Burko’s photographic mixed-media work are captured with a variety of 35mm and 120mm, positive and negative films. The images are digitized and printed with an Epson printer, onto watercolor paper. The prints are then mounted to wood, and collaged with a variety of materials including found papers, sewing patterns, thread, acrylic paint, and beeswax - the work begins in a traditional manner then embarks on a non-traditional journey. The result of this path is a change in how the photograph behaves in space, and how the viewer interacts with it. The image is no longer held behind glass, and begins to relate in a tactile way to those encountering it.