Artist bio
Crystal Burgoyne
Born in Boise, ID
Lives and works in Oregon, United States
Crystal Burgoyne is an artist who employs photography as a means for exploring issues of identity, place, and social justice. She explores the use of Instagram as a medium for photography and words, as well as working in traditional print photography. Many of the final artworks are photo encaustics.
The most recent encaustic series is an exploration of the sense of self through self-portraiture. She deals with themes of censorship and digital privacy, institutionalized oppression, environmental and food justice, and motherhood. She also pursues opportunities to photograph demonstrations of political activism.
Her day-to-day picture taking revolves around capturing details in the places she finds herself, resulting in a body of location-centric/street photography work primarily of Oregon, Idaho, and Colorado. The work highlights details humans add to their environments that leave telling stories.
As owner of The Memento Maker, Crystal also turns her portrait clients’ photographs into encaustic photo blocks. These “Mementos” make for a unique addition to her portrait photography services. Clients may have images from their portrait sessions encausted into fine art blocks. Crystal also creates “Mementos” for clients using their own copyright-free images.
Born in Boise, Idaho, Burgoyne moved to Oregon in 1997. She holds a degree in Environmental Studies from Willamette University and a Post-Baccalaureate of Craft in Fine Art Photography from Oregon College of Art and Craft. She maintains a studio in Oregon.
Credentials
2007 - Oregon College of Art and Craft, Post-Baccalaureate in Photography
2002 - Willamette University, BA Environmental Studies
Projects and Showings
2018 - Salem Art Association, Bush Barn Art Gallery, Holiday Showcase, Juried Show.
2018 - Librarians with Spines, vol 2.
2018 - Sheridan to NORCOR a Seven Day Journey- Photojournalism.
Documentation of an activist march, organized by the Rural Organizing Project, from Sheridan, Oregon to The Dallas NORCOR detention facility in September and October. Marchers intended to raise awareness of the No on M105 campaign.
2017 - #SenseofPlace
2017 - #censored
2016-2017- Denver Sabbatical
2016 - #SenseofSelf
2016 - Democracy Spring. Photojournalism. Documentation of an activist march from Pennsylvania to the U.S. Capitol Building calling for the overturn of Citizens United. A sit-in/civil disobedience was scheduled for, and lasted, five days on the capitol steps.
2015 - Artist Shuffle vol 2: My Dichotomy
2015 - Traveling Artist books 3&4
2014 - Learned Beauty Series
2014 - Traveling Artist book 2
2013 - The Artist Shuffle, An International Collaboration with Autumn Steam
2012- EMERGE - Emerging Oregon Artists Showcases
2007 - By-Proxy, Oregon College of Art and Craft Thesis Show
2007 - Oregon College of Art and Craft Juried Student Show
2006 - Oregon College of Art and Craft Juried Student Show, Third Place
2006 - Oregon College of Art and Craft Photography Department Juried Show
2006 - Heritage, An Albumen Series
2006 - Glass Series
2005 - Oregon College of Art and Craft Photography Department Juried Show
2005 - Mementos Series
2005 - Salem, Oregon Series
Children’s Books
2017 - The Dream Backpack, by Crystal Burgoyne
2010 - The Birth Day Book, by Crystal Burgoyne