TOM BURCKHARDT: Informal Worship
$24.00
SKU: BCMA-CAT24-INFORM
Art by Tom Burckhardt with accompanying introduction by Elena Sisto
The catalogue accompanies the exhibition Tom Burckhardt: Informal Worship, on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from May 23, 2024 through August 18, 2024. In 2020, artist Tom Burckhardt (American, born 1964) began to create ink and collage drawings on found book pages. Since then, he has created more than five hundred of these drawings. As an artist, Burckhardt has long been interested in “found text”—words that appear on billboards, road signs, or in people’s front yards. Burckhardt is drawn to the way in which words appear in books. After unbinding old books found in flea markets, Burckhardt draws, paints, and creates collages on the loose pages to disrupt and reimagine the meaning of the words on each page.
Softcover: 112 pages
Dimensions: 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches
Published by Jared Linge, HIGH NOON GALLERY (2024)
Design by Nathan Brutzman (2024)