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Essay by Emily Dara Shinn

Peripheral: the outside, surface, or superficial; the minor, inessential, or secondary.

Vision: the ability to perceive; eyesight, optics; conception, idea, insight.

Claire Burbridge captures the essence of earthly realms unseen, overlooked, and uncharted. Comprised of pigment, terrestrial ingredients, scientific inquiry, and an empathic will, her work balances gracefully between a challenge of perception and an encouragement to wonder. The title of this show, Peripheral Visions, illuminates a core tenet of the artist’s practice and ethos: there is much to discover …