129SHOW PREVIEW“building up in thin layers, sometimes 20
of them, and tighten up as I go. I try to stay
true to the scenes the way I found them.
Sometimes I’ll edit something out that’s not
working for the composition.”
Burk adds, “The utilities and structures
are man’s presence in the landscape. The
paintings are presentations, not neces-
sarily a comment.”
He quotes Henry Miller, “What the
painter sees he is duty-bound to share.
Usually he makes us see and feel what
ordinarily we ignore or are immune to. His
manner of approaching the world tells us,in effect, that nothing is hideous, nothing is
stale, flat and unpalatable unless it be our
own power of vision.”George Billis Gallery
525 W. 26th Street, Ground Floor • New York, NY 10001 •
(212) 645-2621 • http://www.georgebillis.com4