American Bank, 2020
For Dallas Art Fair 2020 Bart Keijsers Koning speaks with William Burton Binnie about his work and his residency at the Bemis Art Center.
I don’t think my life or experience is interesting enough to make biographical work, but if I feel an image or idea speaks to larger emotional or sociocultural sentiments, I suppose I’m becoming more comfortable with having parts of my own history in the work, as in Childhood Bedroom, which is a painting of my boyhood home being bulldozed and which, while personal, also felt like a much larger and distinctly American pastime: razing a perfectly good home to the ground to build a newer, bigger one. - William Burton Binnie
I don’t think my life or experience is interesting enough to make biographical work, but if I feel an image or idea speaks to larger emotional or sociocultural sentiments, I suppose I’m becoming more comfortable with having parts of my own history in the work, as in Childhood Bedroom, which is a painting of my boyhood home being bulldozed and which, while personal, also felt like a much larger and distinctly American pastime: razing a perfectly good home to the ground to build a newer, bigger one. - William Burton Binnie
