Caroline Burton: The Back of the Moon

Caroline Burton: The Back of the Moon
On view: August 1–September 27, 2025

For this exhibition, Caroline Burton exhibits large- and small-scale abstract works on canvas that hover between painting, print, and sculpture. Burton continues her overall grey toned palette. On close inspection one can see the shimmer of silver pigments within the greys, a signature of her painted surfaces. Her process-drive practice draws on her Finnish heritage, architectural forms, land formations, and the effects of accidents in life and art. Burton uses crocheted or knitted afghans from thrift stores as printing tools to make these pieces that art made on the floor. With reverence for the afghan craft, she considers the unknown afghan makers as silent collaborators in her process.

According to Burton, the exhibition title, The Back of the Moon, comes from the name of her family cabin in Colorado where she spent summers as a child. It also references the backside of the moon, and the backs of the afghans used to make her works.

The exhibition will be shown in LHUCA’s Christine DeVitt Exhibition Hall.