TAWA at 45
The Exhibition
Jean Burdick
Facades II
silkscreen on panel, 2019; 18″h x 18″w
Jean Burdick (www.jeanburdick.com) is a painter and printmaker and lives and maintains a studio in Bucks County, PA. Burdick received her MFA from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, and her BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, and has worked as a textile designer and an arts educator. She is the recipient of awards and honors including a Visual Artist Residency to the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada; Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Visual Artist/Educator Fellowship Grant; and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant as an Artist in Residence for the James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA. Burdick has exhibited nationally and is included in numerous corporate, public and private collections. Her work is represented in the collections of Allergan Corporation, Bridgewater, NJ; AtlantiCare/Fox Chase Cancer Care Institute, Cape May, NJ; AtlantiCare Mainland Campus, Galloway, NJ; Capital Health Medical Center, Hopewell, NJ; Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ; Medical Arts Pavilion, University Medical Center of Princeton, Plainsboro, NJ; Mercer Co. Cultural/ Historical Society, NJ; Mercy Health System, Norristown, PA; Philadelphia Energy Solutions, Philadelphia, PA; Penn State Hampden Medical Center, Hampden, PA; Penn State Lancaster Medical Center, Lancaster, PA; Summit Medical Group MD Anderson Cancer Center, Florham Park, NJ; University Medical Center of Princeton, Plainsboro ,NJ.; and Yeshiva University, New York City, NY.
“From remembered landscapes, I draw on my photographs of rural and urban landscapes, the interaction of the built and the organic. Reimagining what I have observed, I create photo silkscreens from my photographs recording light, shadow, and memory. Merging the architectural structures and natural spaces from my travels in both the United States and abroad allows me to internalize my personal experiences. I am particularly drawn to doorways and windows, which represent the interface between the structures and the lives of those who inhabit them. In the studio process, beginning with printing my photo silkscreens, I build each successive layer of pattern, texture, and color. I enhance the image by drawing, painting, printing, and experimental mark-making. Merging the images from several perspectives gives a closer interpretation of my experiences. Memories of thoughts from particular locations evoke impressions accumulated in the layered images. Each layer magnifies, overlaps, obscures, or otherwise enhances the layers that came before. These vistas are composites of landscapes producing a memoir of places in transition.”