Greg Burak

Born 1986 in Haverstraw, NY

Lives and works in Queens, NY

Greg Burak’s work explores the possibility of the uncanny, contrasting the temporal and the mysterious through modes of representational and figurative painting. His paintings are a foray into the paranormal as he captures the faltering moment at the threshold between the everyday and the supernatural. “Something lurks in the mundane and Greg Burak tiptoes around it. He clarifies nothing, yet illuminates plenty- like shining a flashlight on an amalgam of innocuous matter. This allows the viewer an encounter with dubious freefall. One is hard pressed to identify the narratives contained within these frames. What are these moments verging on? What are they tending toward? There are moot tensions that leave the viewer at a loss for resolution.” (Reilly Davidson)

His first solo exhibition Visitations at Fortnight Institute in 2018, received press from Art in America and The Brooklyn Rail. His work has been included in group exhibitions both nationally and internationally in recent years. His second solo exhibition, Associates, (2022) at Fortnight Institute is about fate and the uncertainty of situations.

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