The Economist Series a collaboration Mira Burack and Narine Kchikian
The Economist Series are collaborative collage/drawings by Mira Burack and Narine Kchikian that represent an ongoing dialogue between the artists. The works are extrapolations of weeks in time, all content derived from their verbal and material discussions of the world's narratives in The Economist magazine. Sorting through The Economist's visual language, Burack and Kchikian cultivate their own personal economy, internalizing the issues and information while questioning the influence of the media on the development of our minds.
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| The Economist May 20–26 2006, 2009, Collage/Drawing, 25" x 25" |
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Burack and Kchikian approach the visual language of The Economist’s global, political and economic commentary with a sensitive layering of the material – methods of extracting, cutting, drawing, connecting and arranging are infused into woven, illusionary spaces that carry delicate objects, enveloping fields of color, disappearing lines, and architectural patterns and structures. The spaces created within these drawing/collages are like maps, intersecting imaginative, internal locations of the mind with real, recognizable global iconography from the pressing political issues of this time.
ABOUT COLLABORATION
Burack and Kchikian have been working collaboratively for over three years. The Economist Series collaboration speaks to the artists both as individuals and as a part of the collective experience, commenting on the greater, social importance of creating and dialoguing together.
Each artist brings parts of their individual practice to the work while also being influenced by each other's decisions and techniques, and ulltimately, they create a larger, third entity of their combined sensibilities. While they work, their actions are planned and spontaneous, and they often negotiate decisions and share commentaries while working on multiple pieces at a time. The Economist Series is an exploration of their shared investigation into everyday patterns, imagery, forms and materials. Qualities of drawing, collage, documentation, textiles, soft sculpture and spatial experience inform their collaborative decisions.
BIOGRAPHIES
Mira Burack is currently living and working in Detroit. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up on the coast of Maine. She received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and BA from Pepperdine University. Burack has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, and is currently Adjunct Faculty at the College for Creative Studies and Assistant Director of Kresge Arts in Detroit.
Narine Kchikian received her MFA degree in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and her BFA from the College for Creative Studies. Originally from Kazakhstan, she moved to Detroit in 1991 and has been living and working there since. Kchikian has been exhibiting her work nationally and internationally, as well as curating exhibitions and teaching. Currently, she is the Gallery Coordinator of the Macomb College Art Gallery and Adjunct Faculty at College for Creative Studies.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Mira Burack
917.374.4459
mira@matterology.com
www.matterology.com
Narine Kchikian
248. 933.2281
nkchikian@hotmail.com
www.nkchikian.com
Please visit The Economist Series blog at http://theeconomistseries.wordpress.com/.
IMAGES
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| The Economist May 6–12 2006 (top) May 13–19 2006 (bottom) |
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| The Economist October 18-24 2008 Part I |
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| The Economist October 18-24 2008 Part II |
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The Economist May 27–June 2 2006 |
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| The Economist August 12-18 2006 |
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| The Economist June 3-9 2006 |
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| The Economist August 5-11 2006 |
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The Economist April 8-14 2006 |
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The Economist April 1- 7 2006 |
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IN THIS ISSUE
- EDITORIAL
- Welcome
DEBATE- The Third Line Gallery, Dubai
- B21 Gallery, Dubai
- Green Art Gallery, Dubai
- October Gallery, London
- Selma Feriani Gallery, London
- Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco
- Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
- Maya Rasamny, Patron of Art Dubai
- Kalfayan Galleries, Greece
INTERVIEW
- The Flying House, Dubai
- Naiza Khan, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London
- Lamia Naji, Galerie El Marsa, Tunis
- Hala Elkoussy, ACAP winner
- Kader Attia, ACAP winner
- Marwan Sahmarani, ACAP winner
THE PROJECT SPACE
- The Economist Series
