Amanda Burnham is from Toledo, Ohio. Born in 1979, she focuses on installation featuring scraps of paper with drawings of city architecture. In Burnham’s words, her interest in depicting cities comes from her admiration for the “adaptive sensibility of tinkerers, patchers, foragers, and those who make-do.” (Brunham) One thing that really stood out was her practice of archiving pieces of previous installations and reusing the visual assets in later drawings. I come from a digital practice so to see a similar methodology of reuse of visual assets was really interesting for an installation artist. Burnham will use walls as a pile of trash, or even use street lights as sidewalks, keeping tape and adhesives exposed in order to utilize these tools as a line in the work.

Aside from putting up really amazing work depicting space with a great sense of perspective in black ink. Burnham is currently a professor at Townson University in Rhode Island.