Stephanie Bursese is a Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary visual artist who has spent her life all along the East Coast, deeply embedded in many creative communities. Her work creates visual relationships between physical and psychological space using printed images, textiles, site-specific installations, book forms, sculpture, architectural elements, and other handmade objects. Often working through a feminist framework, her inspiration comes from research into behavioral patterns, personal and cultural trauma, embedded coping mechanisms, and how our environment affects our movement through developmental stages. Bursese investigates photography’s role in limiting perspective, both formally and as a concept, using loops, repetition, and doubling, to disrupt and develop doubt in the viewer.
Bursese earned her MFA from Syracuse University and her BFA from the University of Florida, both in photography, with minors in printmaking and art history. Her work has appeared in numerous group and solo exhibitions, publications, and museums, nationally and internationally, including The Aperture Foundation (NY), The Print Center (PA), Expo Chicago (IL), Cornell University (NY), Galerie Maison Kasini (Montreal), Everson Museum of Art (NY), Silver Eye Center for Photography (PA), The University of Virginia (VA), and many more. She is represented in both private and public collections. She was selected for a residency at the Fabric Workshop and Museum (2006); published her first book of photographs, Razor Thin Rock Hard (2013); released a second book in 2015, Belt and Brace; and was nominated for the MACK First Book Award in 2017.
To learn more about Stephanie Bursese, visit https://stephaniebursese.com/.
Stephanie’s residency was generously sponsored in part by Phyllis Childress
