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Tom Burckhardt

American, b. 1964

Tom Burckhardt was born in New York City in 1964. He is known for exploring the artistic process and subverting the boundary between representation and abstraction. Noting his avoidance of painting on canvas and preferring to use book-pages and molded plastic and traditional art materials for his sculptures, critic John Yuan described Burckhardt’s aim as to “destabilize the grand tradition of painting and sculpture while simultaneously finding non-nostalgic ways to honor them”. Burckhardt’s 2011 installation 157 Elements of a Painting attempted to deconstruct notions of painting with 157 bold, colorful images that contained quasi-recognizable forms with fragmentary motifs and painterly elements. In the same spirit, Full Stop, a detailed cardboard-and-black-paint recreation of an artist’s studio, complete with art books on the shelves and a blank canvas, was an attempt to undermine the material aspect of installation art.

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Canvas in the Snow III

Canvas in the Snow III

By Tom Burckhardt

Located in Lyons, CO

Monoprint on antique paper Burckhardt is interested in art from cultures where symbols and narrative forms are mysterious and indecipherable. Seeing artifacts independent of backg...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tom Burckhardt

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Monoprint

Color Lithograph Linocut Chine Collé "Workshop" Bright Modernist Pop Art
Color Lithograph Linocut Chine Collé "Workshop" Bright Modernist Pop Art

Color Lithograph Linocut Chine Collé "Workshop" Bright Modernist Pop Art

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 nin...

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Early 2000s Pop Art Tom Burckhardt

Materials

Lithograph, Linocut

"Further Reading"

"Further Reading"

By Tom Burckhardt

Located in Lyons, CO

The artist describes this project: “This print grows out of ink and collage works using old book pages. The title or chapter heading is a kind of found text, unmoored from its conte...

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2010s Contemporary Tom Burckhardt

Materials

Lithograph

Workshop

Workshop

By Tom Burckhardt

Located in Lyons, CO

Color lithograph/linocut with chine collé, Edition 25 Tom Burckhardt’s work is a carnival of images jumbled and jostling each other in precarious nonsensical compositions. He uses...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tom Burckhardt

Materials

Lithograph

Debris XVI

Debris XVI

By Tom Burckhardt

Located in Lyons, CO

Color monoprint Burckhardt's Debris monoprints are meant to conjure a Western landscape, with Big Sky expanses coupled with flood washed rubble. The prints are not intended to be ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tom Burckhardt

Materials

Monoprint

Twister

Twister

By Tom Burckhardt

Located in Lyons, CO

Color lithograph on antique paper, Edition 20. Burckhardt is interested in art from cultures where symbols and narrative forms are mysterious and indecipherable. Seeing artifacts ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tom Burckhardt

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Lithograph

Debris XXII

Debris XXII

By Tom Burckhardt

Located in Lyons, CO

Color monoprint Burckhardt's Debris monoprints are meant to conjure a Western landscape, with Big Sky expanses coupled with flood washed rubble. The prints are not intended to be ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tom Burckhardt

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Monoprint

Incognito

Incognito

By Tom Burckhardt

Located in Lyons, CO

Color lithograph, Edition 20 Burckhardt is interested in art from cultures where symbols and narrative forms are mysterious and indecipherable. Seeing artifacts independent of bac...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tom Burckhardt

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Color Lithograph Linocut Chine Collé "Workshop" Bright Modernist Pop Art
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Color Lithograph Linocut Chine Collé "Workshop" Bright Modernist Pop Art

By Tom Burckhardt

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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 (1912-92), the comic figuration of Philip Guston and the Surrealism of the Hairy Who painters, Jim Nutt and Karl Wirsum...

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Early 2000s Pop Art Tom Burckhardt

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