Tom Burckhardt, Color Lithograph Linocut Chine Collé "Workshop" Bright Modernist Pop Art, 2004

Description

Hand signed and numbered edition of 25. 16 x 36" sheet size without frame.
“Workshop” is an ambitious color lithograph … more 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. One can also detect traces of Carol Dunham and even stronger hints of the Brazilian landscape architect/painter, Roberto Burle-Marx (1909-94).

Select Exhibitions
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Tom Burckhardt, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)
Tom Burckhardt: Falk Visiting Artist, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (solo exhibition)
Louder Milk, Pierogi Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
New Image Sculpture, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Annual Exhibit, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
ex libre, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
Tom Burckhardt, Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, SUNY Purchase, NY
A World in Cardboard, City Museum Aalst, Belgium
Slump, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Material Abuse, Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Work in Progress: Martin Bromirski, Tom Burckhardt, Chrissy Conant, Byron Kim, João Onofre, Douglas Paulson & Ward Shelley, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The 181st Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum
FULL STOP, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY; DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
In the Land of Nod, curated by Leslie Brothers, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH
About Painting, The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Workshop, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
New York, New Work, Now!, curated by Nina Felshin, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
The Art of Collecting - IV, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York,
Tom Burckhardt, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, NY
New Work, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
New Prints 2002/Summer, IPCNY, New York, NY less