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Born 1978 Kingston, New York. Known for: Figurative, abstract and geometirc prints images with themes of the occult.
Elijah Burgher’s artwork indoctrinates viewers into a mystical cult of queer sexual energies. He produces small colored pencil drawings, both figurative and abstract, and paintings and prints of... Read full biography
Elijah Burgher’s artwork indoctrinates viewers into a mystical cult of queer sexual energies. He produces small colored pencil drawings, both figurative and abstract, and paintings and prints of sigils. Burgher utilizes ideas from magick and the occult to address sexuality, sub-cultural formation... Read full biography
Elijah Burgher’s artwork indoctrinates viewers into a mystical cult of queer sexual energies. He produces small colored pencil drawings, both figurative and abstract, and paintings and prints of sigils. Burgher utilizes ideas from magick and the occult to address sexuality, sub-cultural formation and the history of abstraction. Citing 20th century occultist Austin Osman Spare’s system, he creates sigils—emblems to which magical power is imputed. By recombining the letters that spell out a wish... Read full biography
Elijah Burgher’s artwork indoctrinates viewers into a mystical cult of queer sexual energies. He produces small colored pencil drawings, both figurative and abstract, and paintings and prints of sigils. Burgher utilizes ideas from magick and the occult to address sexuality, sub-cultural formation and the history of abstraction. Citing 20th century occultist Austin Osman Spare’s system, he creates sigils—emblems to which magical power is imputed. By recombining the letters that spell out a wish into a new symbol, Burgher’s pictures of sigils literally encode desire while embodying it abstractly through shape, color and composition. Burgher’s drawings of nude men feature his friends and illustrate environments from his daily life,... Read full biography
Elijah Burgher’s artwork indoctrinates viewers into a mystical cult of queer sexual energies. He produces small colored pencil drawings, both figurative and abstract, and paintings and prints of sigils. Burgher utilizes ideas from magick and the occult to address sexuality, sub-cultural formation and the history of abstraction. Citing 20th century occultist Austin Osman Spare’s system, he creates sigils—emblems to which magical power is imputed. By recombining the letters that spell out a wish into a new symbol, Burgher’s pictures of sigils literally encode desire while embodying it abstractly through shape, color and composition. Burgher’s drawings of nude men feature his friends and illustrate environments from his daily life, functioning as relics of rituals. They have a quasi-erotic quality, grounding the works’ more abstract components in the realm of reality. “At ba... Read full biography
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