Bruce Burton: Among the Ghosts

October 9 - November 6, 2020

St. Louis, MO — Monaco is pleased to present Among the Ghosts, featuring work by Bruce Burton.

“ There are strange red depths in the soul of the most common place man.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

Melding natural materials and found objects, Among the Ghosts is a body of work considering the evidence we leave behind of our existence. Referencing of both real and fictional lost civilizations and artifacts found at archaeological sites, these works allow intuitive processes and material memories to determine their mysterious purposes.

Bruce Burton received his BA from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. His work is a exploration of the process of making it; gathering, sorting, collating, associating, and staging/displaying. It is rooted in opposing principles; thinking and making — mind and body — rational and organic — structure and experimentation — mechanical and handmade. Investigating the relationships between the object (found or created), the environment, and the viewer. He is one of the co-founders of Monaco, an artist-owned cooperative that operates as an alternative to the traditional gallery model in 2017 and served as a board member at White Flag Projects until its closing in 2016.

 Burton has been in solo exhibitions at Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts (St. Louis), The Sheldon Art Galleries (St. Louis), PSTL Gallery (St. Louis), and Maps Contemporary Art Projects (Belleville, IL); and group exhibitions at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (Memphis, TN), World Chess Hall of Fame(St. Louis), White Flag Projects (St. Louis), Monaco (St. Louis), and The Luminary Arts (St. Louis), among others.  He lives and works in Belleville, Illinois.