By Tom Burckhardt
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and numbered edition of 25. 16 x 36" sheet size without frame.
“Workshop” is an ambitious color lithograph and linocut with chine collé printed in twelve colors from nine plates and one linocut. It has been printed in an edition of 25, plus proofs, on white Rives BFK paper 16 x 36” with chine collé of various papers. (No, it’s not upside down)
Born 1964 in New York where he still currently resides and works alongside his partner the ceramist Kathy Butterly. Son of the photographer Rudy Burckhardt and painter Yvonne Jacquette, Tom Burckhardt was 1986, BFA, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
1992–1993, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
1996, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Grant
1997, New York Foundation for the Arts, Painting Grant
1997 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2002 George Hitchcock Award, National Academy of Arts
2003, Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, American Academy
2005, AICA Best Show of an Emerging or Underknown Artist
2005 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2006 Best Installation, Best of Houston, the Houston Press
2009 Guggenheim Foundation Grant
2010, New York Foundation for the Arts Drawing/Print Grant
2010 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
Tom Burckhardt’s work is a carnival of images jumbled and jostling each other in precarious nonsensical compositions. He uses lushly colored and patterned images from all kinds of sources that bounce between abstraction and representation. Images come from tool catalogs, paper and fabric patterns, funhouse painting, architectural details, stripes, dots and squiggles. It is as if Burckhardt is a cartoonist merrily channeling Ellsworth Kelly, Paul Feeley, Robert Therrien, and Myron Stout, among others. Like Red Grooms, for whom he worked as an assistant, Burckhardt ransacks his influences yet ends up with something unmistakably his own. His work bears the influence of is a synthesis of many things: the tribal-influenced abstract painting of Steve Wheeler...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art CLAYTON POND Art
MaterialsLithograph, Linocut