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Burial VII
Burial VII

Burial VII

Portfolio/SeriesBurial
Maker (United States, born 1976)
Publisher (United States)
Date2009
MediumLithograph on paper
DimensionsIMAGE/SHEET: 10 1/8 x 9 7/8 in.
IMAGE/SHEET: 257 x 251 mm
Object TypePrints
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Friends Kansas Art Fund
EditionZanatta Editions Impression
Object number2010.56
On View
Not on view
Description
• Burial is the artist’s personal retelling of his uncle’s drug-related death in Los Angeles.

• The artist has said that the set of nine lithographs have no specific order or sequencing.

• The prints in the series appear like collages. Creightney wrote: “Collage is integral to my process. … Working in this way, I make cut-and-paste hybrids where flowers become figures in the landscape, and dreams of paradise morph into dystopian nightmares.”

• The artist described his process in this way: “I start with paper. I cut it directly from old books. I cut up prints that I create in various media. I use the scraps left from paintings before. I paste [them] on canvas, wood or thicker pieces of paper to create fields of information. Then I work back into these initial backgrounds with paint, then more collage. Eventually, imagined landscapes emerge from the chaos. Worlds built from remnants.”

• This portfolio was published by Zanatta Editions of Shawnee, Kansas. The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art holds the Zanatta Editions print archive.
Exhibitions
Bibliography
Burial IX
Karsten Creightney
2009
2010.52
Burial III
Karsten Creightney
2009
2010.55
Burial IV
Karsten Creightney
2009
2010.49
Burial VIII
Karsten Creightney
2009
2010.57
Burial II
Karsten Creightney
2009
2010.50
Burial V
Karsten Creightney
2009
2010.51
Burial VI
Karsten Creightney
2009
2010.53
Burial I
Karsten Creightney
2009
2010.54
Goodbye
Karsten Creightney
2010
2012.145
February Flower
Karsten Creightney
2009
2010.59
Untitled (prickly pear flower II)
Karsten Creightney
2011
2011.134
Untitled (Orange Love Flower)
Karsten Creightney
2011
2012.147