Own Luna Bloom by Anna Kang Burgess. The work is a mixed media collage in black frame. The size is 17 x 14 ¾ inches framed.
Artist Biography
Anna Kang Burgess (b. 1930- )was born in Hawaii of Korean parentage in 1930. She was raised on Hawaii’s Del Monte Pineapple Plantation on Oahu. Burgess is considered one of America’s pioneering female Asian American abstract artists. She received her undergraduate training at the University of Hawaii and earned her MFA degree in weaving and fiber arts at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Burgess was one of four Asian American women artists to study at Cranbrook Academy in the 1950’s.
Burgess has been honored with many awards and her work is included in many museum, public, and corporate collections, including The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Houston Fine Arts Museum,
The Smithsonian Institution, The Cranbrook Art Museum, The LongHouse Reserve, The St. Paul Art Center, the Flint Institute of Arts, The Johnson Wax Collection, the Marshall Fields & Company Collection, The Hawaii State Collection, and The Albuquerque Museum, among others. Her work has been shown in exhibits throughout the country, including at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Museum of International Folk Art, among others.
Her work was recently on display in the 2019 Minnesota Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Good Making of Good Things – Craft Horizons 1941-1979 and The Arts Club of Washington, DC in 2021 where she had a sold-out show. She has also gained a reputation as a professional designer, and at one time was employed as a studio designer by Dorothy Liebes Textiles in New York City. Burgess was a highlight of the 2023-2024 Cooper Hewitt Museum exhibition titled A Dark, A light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.
Burgess taught at the University of Hawaii and Cranbrook Academy of Art. She was the head of the fabric design and weaving department of the Cleveland Institute of Art. Burgess also taught at Textile
Workshops and the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She was married to artist Joseph James Burgess, Jr., whom she met at Cranbrook Academy of Art, until his death. Their combined archive resides in the Smithsonian American Art Archive and her family
archive resides in the Smithsonian Institution Archive. She continues to live in Santa Fe where she has created work for over 50 years. Her children are acclaimed modern dance choreographer Dana Tai Soon
Burgess and product designer Ian Tai Kyung Burgess.