The stunningly colorful paintings of Hope Burger are now on display at the Arts Garage.

Jonnie Myers Debbink, exhibit director for TAG,  said, "Hope's work is always surprising as she taps into her subconscious and intuition as the key resources for her paintings. This exhibit is a shear joy to witness!"

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ARTIST BIO

Hope Burger is a mixed-media expressionist artist raised on a farm in central Ohio. She earned her BA in Fine Art from Kent State University. Hope has been in art exhibits and art fairs throughout Ohio and is in multiple private collections in the United States. Hope is a three-time winner of Battle of the Artists held at TAG by the GPCAAC, and currently works from her studio in Fremont, Ohio. Hope lives with her cat, Salem, likes slow stitching and making her own art journals, enjoys kayaking with her best friend and traveling to Disney World with her mom, and sometimes she can be seen playing pool with her family. Hope can be found on Instagram, @artevokes.

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ARTISTS STATEMENT

I create through a process that is more intuitive than premeditated, using layers of acrylic, collage, ink, pencil, and sometimes fiber and found objects. I am driven by my subconscious as I paint, with memories and emotions influencing how each painting develops. 

 

My process begins by creating an abstract background, which is a time for me to play with color, texture and mark-making. When that step is finished, I look for images, similar to looking for animals in the clouds. Most often I see faces, figures and sometimes animals. My next step is to bring what I see to the surface with more paint and sometimes mixed-media.

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I can be affected by conversations I’ve had, the state of mind I’m in at that moment, what I’m feeling that day, or by the music I choose to listen to. Music has a way of tapping into the subconscious through its melody or lyrics. Often those conversations, or lyrics of the music I was listening to, became titles of my artwork in this show, other times titles were influenced by what I saw in my finished artwork. My goal is to interpret what I see, like an ink blot Rorschach test, as it is a part of my  ubconscious, a window to my inner thoughts and feelings. I feel a part of me is in every piece of artwork I create.​

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I feel my job as an artist is to also evoke something in the viewer with my art, to make them feel an emotion or to spark a memory. I hope as you view my paintings here today, you connect with the art in a way that brings an emotion or memory from your subconscious to your surface.
 

The exhibit runs from October 31 through December 1, 2024  at the Arts Garage, 317 West Perry Street, Port Clinton. 
 

The Arts Garage is open Thursday-Sunday, 11-4pm.

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