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Spruill Gallery Presents After an Endless Embrace with Kate Burke and Aineki Traverso
Opening Reception: September 19, 6 -9 p.m.
Artist’s Talk: October 1, 7 p.m. Spruill Gallery
Spruill Gallery is pleased to announce After an Endless Embrace, a two-person collaborative exhibition featuring works by Atlanta-based artists Kate Burke and Aineki Traverso. The exhibition runs from September 19 to October 31, 2024, at Spruill Gallery.
After an Endless Embrace brings together Burke’s and Traverso’s distinctive works. While Traverso delves into the interplay of figuration and expressionism to explore nuances of memory and nature; Kate Burke recontextualizes Southern spirituality through her storytelling approach. Together, their works create a dialogue that reflects the Gallery’s commitment to presenting new and experimental art.
In lieu of a traditional curatorial approach, Gallery Director Shannon Morris provided Burke and Traverso to engage collaboratively, embodying the Gallery’s vision to showcase new, experimental and rarely seen works. This opportunity allowed the artists to push the boundaries of their practices.
Special Program: Spruill Gallery host an artists’ talk Tuesday, October 1 at 7 p.m. offering the audience insight into the artists’ individual and collaborative practices during the making of their new work, which revolves around the ideas of nature, technology, and humanism.
The two Atlanta-based artists discuss their inspirations and processes, engaging in a meaningful conversation and subsequent Q&A moderated by the director of Spruill Gallery, Shannon Morris
Kate Burke
Atlanta-based artist Kate Burke received her BFA in Fabric Design in 2016 with honors from the University of Georgia. She moved to Atlanta in 2017 and shortly thereafter immersed herself in the art community in Atlanta.
Her career has developed steadily since moving to Atlanta, with solo and group showings throughout the United States in spaces such as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Atlanta Contemporary, Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, GA, the Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott, Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Greenville, SC, Free Market Gallery, ATHICA, whitespec, Art Fields in Lake City, SC, Waiting Room Art, and Mint Atlanta.
Receiving distinguished awards such as the ArtFields Category Award for textiles in 2019 and with a growing list of fellowships, including being chosen as a two-time Hambidge Center fellow and as one of 2021’s2021’s Leap Year artists, Kate recently debuted her solo show “Never let me go” in April 2022. She looks forward to participating as a 2023-2025 fellow of The Creatives Project in Atlanta, GA. She is a member of the Studio Artists Program at the Atlanta Contemporary.
Aineki Traverso
Aineki Traverso (b. 1991) is a painter based in Atlanta, GA. Her work uses the rhetoric of painting to echo how memories, fantasies and identities are transformed, constructed, and intertwined. Aineki exhibits in spaces such as Swan Coach House Gallery (Atlanta, GA), Whitespace Gallery (Atlanta, GA), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Greenville, SC), and Swivel Gallery (Brooklyn, NY). Aineki has attended residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, VCCA, and R&F Handmade Paints. Aineki is a grant recipient of the Edge Award from the Forward Arts Foundation (2023), the Susan Antinori Visual Artist Grant from Idea Capital (2024), and the Nexus Fund (2024).
