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After retreating to Santa Fe in the 1970s to immerse himself in painting, Maurice Burns’s vital, frequently autobiographical canvases are appearing outside of New Mexico for the first time at the 2019 edition of Art Miami. A MacDowell fellow and Pollock-Krasner award recipient, Burns weaves together ideas and iconography from the Harlem Renaissance, Pop Art, and the School of London in pursuit of a cultural territory unbound by 20th-century conceptions of racial identity and the conventions of high culture. As Burns remixes art history and pop culture on his postmodern canvases, a distinctly …