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ARLENE BURKE-MORGAN b. 1950 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Arlene Burke-Morgan received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia in 1972 and a Master of Fine Arts from East Carolina University in 1989.
A life-long Christian, Burke-Morgan had a "born-again" experience in 1992 that made her see her work as not an end in itself but as a means to honor her most cherished values. In the previous year she had begun a new series of drawings that featured glowing, ovular shapes; after her spiritual revival Burke-Morgan interpreted these "Circles of Light," as she called them, as symbols of God's pervasive and transforming love. Burke-Morgan's current work in painting, drawing and printmaking focuses on different aspects of biblical truth as it relates to her faith.
Her awards include
a McKnight Foundation Fellowship (1996), two North Carolina Arts Council
fellowships (1996 and 1992) and a Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts
Regional Visual Arts Fellowship (1990). Burke-Morgan's work has been collected by
General
Mills Corporation,
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In the Beginning, 2005
Vitreograph and digital transfer of Rives BFK White, Edition of 30
Image size: 16 x 16 inches; paper size: 23 x 22 inches $650*
"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him and without him was not anything that was made" (John 1: 1-3). The passage refers to Jesus Christ as "the Word" and says that he is the one and same God that created the universe and the earth, as recounted in the book of Genesis.
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Magnification of Joshua, 2005
Vitreograph and digital transfer of Rives BFK White, Edition of 30
Image size: 16 x 16 inches; paper size: 23 x 22 inches $650*
In the biblical story of the Exodus, God punished the faithlessness of the Israelites by forbidding them to settle in Canaan, the Promised Land. They wandered for forty years before God permitted a new generation of Jews to take possession of Canaan. Under the leadership of Joshua, they embarked on a campaign to defeat the peoples who already occupied the land. In the most famous of these battles God stopped the sun in its course to allow the battle for Jericho to continue in the light of day. In her two versions of the print Magnification of Joshua Burke-Morgan shows the radiance of the sun pushing back the night.
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Magnification of Joshua II, 2005
Vitreograph and digital transfer of Rives BFK White, Edition of 30
Image size: 16 x 16 inches; paper size: 23 x 22 inches $650*
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Point of Departure, 2005
Vitreograph and digital transfer of Rives BFK White, Edition of 30
Image size: 16 x 16 inches; paper size: 23 x 22 inches $650*
"I am the way the truth and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by me" (John 14:6). Spoken by Jesus, these words reiterate the Christian belief that Jesus Christ and the God of the ancient Israelites are one and the same. It also refers to Christ as a passageway through which only those who believe in his divinity shall be granted access to God.
Burke-Morgan says that the diagonal stripes in her work refer to those used on highway barricades; they signal danger. She intends them to likewise caution those who view Point of Departure, perhaps with another reference to Christ as a door in mind.: "Enter ye at the strait (narrow) gate: for wide the gate and broad the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait the way, which leadeth unto life, and few be there that find it" (Matthew 7:13-14).
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Before the Veil, 2005
Vitreograph and digital transfer of Rives BFK White, Edition of 30
Image size: 16 x 16 inches; paper size: 23 x 22 inches $650*
The "veil" in the title of this print refers to a barrier between the physical and the spiritual worlds, between humans and God. In the ancient world a veil or curtain was used in temples to divide the space in which the public was permitted from that in which the deity resided. In her print Burke-Morgan has once again used the reference to the highway barrier - the diagonally striped band across the bottom of the image - to symbolize the mystical division. The print conveys the meaning of the biblical author Paul, who wrote of the spiritual union of the Christian with Christ: "For now we see as through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known" Corinthians 13:12).
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