{{Short description|Bahamian painter and cartoonist (born 1947)}} {{use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Infobox artist | name = Stanley Burnside | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1947}} | birth_place = Nassau, The Bahamas | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT --> | alma_mater = University of Pennsylvania | known_for = Editorial cartooning, painting, costume design | notable_works = ''Sideburns'' | style = | movement = Afrofuturism, Junkanoo | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | father = | mother = | relatives = | family = | awards = | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website = | module = }}
'''Stanley''' "'''Stan'''" '''Burnside''' (born 1947) is a Bahamian cartoonist, painter, and costume designer. From 1979 to 2019, he penned the ''Sideburns'' editorial cartoon for ''The Nassau Guardian''. As a painter, his style was influenced by the collaborative process of Junkanoo, an annual Caribbean street parade. He was a designer and artistic director for the Junkanoo groups Saxon Superstars and One Family. He has also been involved in several artist collaborations with fellow Bahamian artists and co-founded B-CAUSE, an artist collective dedicated to founding a national art gallery for The Bahamas and a national art school. He has been called a "pioneering voice in Afrofuturism".
Born in Nassau, Burnside attended school in the United States, receiving his BFA and MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. He taught art at the College of The Bahamas until 1990.
==Early life and education== Stanley Burnside was born in 1947 in Nassau, Bahamas.<ref name="NAGB">{{cite web |last1=Willis |first1=Natalie |title=From the Collection: 'Solomon' (2000) by Stan Burnside |url=https://nagb.org.bs/2019-10-21-from-the-collection-solomon-2000-by-stan-burnside/ |publisher=National Art Gallery of the Bahamas |date=21 October 2019 |access-date=28 March 2023 |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328020827/https://nagb.org.bs/2019-10-21-from-the-collection-solomon-2000-by-stan-burnside/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Sidney Poitier was his first cousin once removed.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stanley Burnside and Jackson Burnside {{!}} Interview {{!}} American Masters |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/archive/interview/stanley-burnside-and-jackson-burnside/ |website=American Masters |date=1998-10-05 |access-date=28 March 2023 |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328172134/https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/archive/interview/stanley-burnside-and-jackson-burnside/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Burnside was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and received his BFA from the University of Pennsylvania.<ref name="D'Aguilar"/> In the late 1960s, he earned his MFA at the University of Pennsylvania.<ref name="ArtReview"/> Afterwards, he stayed in the United States, designing album covers for R&B artists and painting.<ref name="NAGB"/>
==Art career== Burnside returned to Nassau in 1979 and was an art professor at the College of The Bahamas until 1990.<ref name="ArtReview"/><ref name="NAGB"/>
He was the principal artistic director and designer for the Junkanoo annual street parade groups One Family and Saxon Superstars.<ref name="Koster-Walton"/> He also later led the Marina Village Junkanoo Troupe.<ref>{{cite news |title=Naughty to host stage show during Marathon Bahamas |url=http://www.tribune242.com/news/2016/jan/08/naughty-host-stage-show-during-marathon-bahamas/?news |work=The Tribune |date=8 January 2016 |language=en |access-date=28 March 2023 |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328172136/http://www.tribune242.com/news/2016/jan/08/naughty-host-stage-show-during-marathon-bahamas/?news |url-status=live }}</ref> Burnside's artistic creations outside of Junkanoo employ the exuberance and colors of the cultural celebration.<ref name="Koster-Walton">{{cite book |last1=Koster-Walton |first1=Chelle |title=Explorer's Guide Bahamas: A Great Destination |date=2010 |publisher=The Countryman Press |isbn=978-1-58157-853-9 |page=31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LVo6NbpPdwEC&dq=%22Stanley%20Burnside%22&pg=PA31 |language=en}}</ref> In 1985, Burnside and his brother Jackson collaborated on ''Faces'', a sculptural painting. Burnside characterized the work as a continuation of the art they had created through Junkanoo, saying "It was our attempt to take the process, the Junkanoo collaborative process, into the painting studio."<ref name="The Current">{{cite web |title=Burnside, Beadle & Roberts |url=https://thecurrent.bahamar.com/collections/burnside-beadle-roberts |publisher=The Current |access-date=27 March 2023 |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328172136/https://thecurrent.bahamar.com/collections/burnside-beadle-roberts |url-status=live }}</ref>
In 1991, Burnside joined with five other artists to form B-CAUSE (Bahamian Creative Artists United for Serious Expression). The group, which included his brother Jackson, as well as the artists Brent Malone, Maxwell Taylor, John Beadle, and Antonius Roberts, dedicated themselves to the foundation of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas and the promotion of a national art school.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Craton |first1=Michael |last2=Saunders |first2=Gail |title=A History of the Bahamian People: From the Ending of Slavery to the Twenty-First Century |date=1992 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=978-0-8203-2284-1 |page=485 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UIbRHcz2ZysC&dq=%22Stanley%20Burnside%22&pg=PA485 |language=en}}</ref> Burnside, his brother, and Beadle worked together for a season in the Junkanoo shacks before producing the painting series ''Jammin I''. They founded the artist collective Jammin<ref name="NAGB"/> and the trio Burnside-Beadle-Burnside.<ref name="D'Aguilar">{{cite web |title=Burnside, Stanley |url=https://www.daguilarartfoundation.com/explore/artist/17/burnside_stanley.html |website=The D'Aguilar Art Foundation, Nassau, Bahamas |access-date=27 March 2023 |language=en |archive-date=27 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227170249/https://www.daguilarartfoundation.com/explore/artist/17/burnside_stanley.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Roberts and Malone joined the collective in 1993, creating ''Jammin II''. Burnside-Beadle-Burnside exhibited their works in Atlanta, Georgia, for the 1996 Summer Olympics. They also exhibited ''Jammin III'' in Brazil at the São Paulo Art Biennial. Burnside later joined with Beadle and Antonius Roberts to continue the Jammin series as Burnside, Beadle & Roberts.<ref name="The Current"/>
Burnside was one of the artists featured in the 2008 documentary film ''Artists of the Bahamas'' by Karen Arthur and Tom Neuwirth.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Burnside |first1=Jackson |title='Artists of the Bahamas' to open in unique city-wide exhibition |url=http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish/arts-and-culture/Artists_of_the_Bahamas_to_open_in_unique_city-wide_exhibition13072.shtml |work=The Bahamas Weekly |date=19 November 2010 |access-date=28 March 2023 |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328172142/http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish/arts-and-culture/Artists_of_the_Bahamas_to_open_in_unique_city-wide_exhibition13072.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> ''ArtReview'' called Burnside a "pioneering voice in Afrofuturism".<ref name="ArtReview"/> A portrait of Burnside was created by artist Jamaal Rolle in 2014.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cox |first1=Albert |title=Honouring cultural icons of the Bahamas |url=http://www.tribune242.com/news/2014/jul/09/honouring-cultural-icons-bahamas/ |work=The Tribune |date=9 July 2014 |language=en |access-date=28 March 2023 |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328172135/http://www.tribune242.com/news/2014/jul/09/honouring-cultural-icons-bahamas/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Burnside was a consult on pageantry for the 2014 IAAF World Relays.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Benjamin-Smith |first1=Dionne |title=Local artist gives Bahamian touch to IAAF World Relays |url=http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish/arts-and-culture/Local_artist_gives_Bahamian_touch_to_IAAF_World_Relays35086.shtml |work=The Bahamas Weekly |date=23 May 2014 |access-date=28 March 2023 |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328172137/http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish/arts-and-culture/Local_artist_gives_Bahamian_touch_to_IAAF_World_Relays35086.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
Burnside has exhibited in the United States, France, the Dominican Republic, Bermuda, Cuba, Ecuador, and Venezuela.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Massey |first1=Rebecca |title=Lyford Cay International School (LCIS) students experience a unique artistic presentation from Stan Burnside |url=http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish/community/Lyford_Cay_International_School_LCIS_Students_Experience_an_Unique_Artistic_Presentation_From_Stan_Burnside14807.shtml |work=The Bahamas Weekly |date=8 March 2011 |access-date=28 March 2023 |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328172138/http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish/community/Lyford_Cay_International_School_LCIS_Students_Experience_an_Unique_Artistic_Presentation_From_Stan_Burnside14807.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> His 2000 oil painting ''Solomon'' commemorates the Bahamian musician Exuma as King Solomon and is part of the collection of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.<ref name="NAGB"/> His works are also included in the collections of the Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo and the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC.<ref name="D'Aguilar"/> Burnside's 2022 solo exhibition at the Galerie Perrotin in New York, ''Stanley Burnside: As Time Goes On'', was curated by his mentee, Bahamian conceptual artist Tavares Strachan.<ref name="ArtReview">{{cite news |last1=Rappolt |first1=Mark |title=Stan Burnside and Tavares Strachan: 'We Get to Make Meaning' |url=https://artreview.com/stan-burnside-and-tavares-strachan-we-get-to-make-meaning/ |work=ArtReview |date=25 November 2022 |language=en |access-date=28 March 2023 |archive-date=27 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227171623/https://artreview.com/stan-burnside-and-tavares-strachan-we-get-to-make-meaning/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
===''Sideburns''=== Burnside was hired by ''The Nassau Guardian'' to be their editorial cartoonist in July 1979.<ref name="College of the Bahamas Library"/> His comic strip ''Sideburns'' ran six days a week in the ''Guardian'' for decades except for a brief period where it ran in ''The Tribune''.<ref name="NAGB"/> In 1983, Burnside published a collection of his editorial cartoons entitled ''Off der top. The best of Sideburns. A cartoon history of contemporary Bahamas''.<ref name="College of the Bahamas Library">{{cite web |last1=Gottardi |first1=Angela |title=Selected Bibliography from the Special Collections Department of the College of the Bahamas Library |url=https://journals.sfu.ca/cob/index.php/files/article/download/32/29 |publisher=The College of The Bahamas Library |page=85 |access-date=28 March 2023 |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328172136/https://journals.sfu.ca/cob/index.php/files/article/download/32/29 |url-status=live }}</ref>
''Sideburns'' cartoons were often single-panelled, featuring characters such as the Shack Rat and the Tourism Goose.<ref name="Eye Witness News"/> The editorial cartoons usually addressed topics pertaining to The Bahamas, but also satirized international affairs. In the cartoons, he sketched out social commentary, with his subjects including sports, crime, religion, death, and business.<ref name="College of the Bahamas Library"/><ref name="Ruprecht1995"/> Many of Burnside's comics were political cartoons. In a 1990 interview, he characterized his style as "poking fun at local political events and characters." According to Burnside, his themes cut through the "froth and zeroes in on the heart of issues". Burnside has said the size of the Bahamas can potentially be constraining, but "as long as I have both sides complaining about what I'm doing, I'm doing okay." ''Sideburns'' also employed development themes, with Burnside advocating on behalf of vaccination programs, programs to stop drunk driving, and the Heart Foundation.<ref name="Ruprecht1995">{{cite book |last1=Ruprecht |first1=Alvina Roberta |last2=Taiana |first2=Cecilia |title=Reordering of Culture: Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada in the Hood |date=1995 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |isbn=978-0-88629-269-0 |page=415 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=onoI0AI-JJYC&dq=%22Stanley%20Burnside%22&pg=PA415 |language=en}}</ref>
After a 40-year run of ''Sideburns'', including more than 10,000 cartoon panels,<ref name="NAGB"/> ''The Nassau Guardian'' terminated Burnside's employment in 2019.<ref name="Eye Witness News">{{cite news |title=Cartoonist Stan Burnside says leaked letter was an 'invasion of privacy' |url=https://ewnews.com/cartoonist-stan-burnside-says-leaked-letter-was-an-invasion-of-privacy |work=Eye Witness News |date=26 July 2019 |access-date=28 March 2023 |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328172135/https://ewnews.com/cartoonist-stan-burnside-says-leaked-letter-was-an-invasion-of-privacy |url-status=live }}</ref> His final cartoon was published on 31 July 2019.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Rogan |title=Sideburns: The End Of An Era |url=https://thisbahamiangyal.com/sideburns-the-end-of-an-era/ |work=This Bahamian Gyal |date=31 July 2019 |access-date=28 March 2023 |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328172136/https://thisbahamiangyal.com/sideburns-the-end-of-an-era/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Selected exhibitions== *2010: ''The Optical and the Synthetic: A Collection of Recent Paintings by Stan Burnside'', The Stan Burnside Gallery<ref>{{cite news |title=Stan Burnside Exhibition opens May 28th |url=http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish/arts-and-culture/Stan_Burnside_Exhibition_May_28th10933.shtml |work=The Bahamas Weekly |date=20 May 2010 |access-date=28 March 2023 |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328172135/http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish/arts-and-culture/Stan_Burnside_Exhibition_May_28th10933.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> *2019: ''TimeLines: 1950–2007'', National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau *2022: ''Stanley Burnside: As Time Goes On'', Galerie Perrotin, New York
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