Burnaway is excited to announce the continuation of Burnaway Artist Editions, short runs of art objects created by artists from the South and the Caribbean and intended for a broad scope of discerning collectors.
For our second Artist Edition, Carrboro, NC-based artist Joy Drury Cox designed Watching, Looking, Seeing, a bandana inspired by the design of a neighborhood crime watch sign. Cox often appropriates mundane and bureaucratic structures in her artwork to critique their design and intended functions. She reworked the icon of a single eye into a pattern, echoing the ways in which the act of looking itself can become a rigid, rote, and potentially harmful process. At the core of this work, Cox asks viewers to reconsider what and how we watch, look, and see the world.
Watching, Looking, Seeing is available now on our shop and will be available at Book//Zine, Burnaway’s first annual art book and zine fair held at Goat Farm on Saturday, October 11, 2025 from 11AM-5PM.
About Joy Drury Cox
Joy Drury Cox is an artist based in Carrboro, NC. She was born and raised in Atlanta, GA, and graduated from Emory University with a BA in English. She earned an MFA from the University of Florida in 2006. She has exhibited nationally and internationally since 2003 and is the author of three artist books: Stranger (2014), Old Man and Sea (2012), and Or, Some of the Whale (2013). In 2019, her work was included in the Atlanta Biennial, and her most recent solo exhibition, Prone and Plumb, opened in March of 2020 at Asphodel Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Her works are included in various private and public collections, including the New York Public Library and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Read more about Cox’s work in Haunting: Erasure and Redaction in the Works of Joy Drury Cox by Jennifer Dudley.
