Through my observations of the natural world over the passage of time, I am inspired by the layering of light, pattern, texture and color.
Being surrounded by nature has always been a source of interpretation for me, I am concerned about the impact and consequences of climate change. From remembered landscapes, I draw on my landscape photographs both rural and urban recording light, shadow and memory. My work transforms feelings and memories into something tangible, focusing on segments of vistas that reflect what I experienced.
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.
Reimagining what I have observed, I reference the natural world with its organic and man made structures. The resulting images suggest narratives of unfolding life cycles: birth, growth, death and renewal. These vistas, both rural and urban, are composites of landscapes producing a memoir of places in transition.
Artist Biography
Jean Burdick is a painter and printmaker and lives and maintains a studio in Bucks County, PA. Her process involves successive layers of patterns, textures, shapes and colors, beginning with silkscreen printing and enhanced by drawing, painting, printing and experimental mark-making. Elements of the natural world are magnified, overlapped and obscured, reflecting the continual growth and change, which is the touchstone of the natural world.
Burdick received her MFA degree 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 in 2004; Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Visual Artist/Educator Fellowship Grant in 2007; Artist in Residence, Central Bucks School District in 2015 and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant as an Artist in Residence for the James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA in 2017.
Jean 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 Pavillion, University Medical Center of Princeton, Plainsboro, NJ; Mercer Co. Cultural/ Historical Society, NJ; Mercy Health System, Norristown, PA; Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, FL; Philadelphia Energy Solutions, Philadelphia, 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.
Education
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA MFA, Painting
Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA MEd, Art Education
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY BFA, Painting
Awards & Honors
2019 Dottie Sloan Memorial Award for Painting, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
2018 Best in Show: Fiber Arts, Ellarslie, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
2017 Artist in Residence, National Endowment for the Arts Grant Art for All, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
First Place, Artworks Annual Print Exhibition, Trenton, NJ
2015 Artist in Residence, Holicong Middle School, Central Bucks School District, PA
2013 Best in Show, Celebration of Art and Life, Hospital of the Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Juror’s Award, Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown,NJ
2007 Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Award, Visual Artist/Educator Fellowship
2006 Juror’s Award, Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
2004 Johnson & Johnson Purchase Prize, 48th Annual National Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Juror’s Award, Mercer County Artists Exhibit, Mercer Co Community College, West Windsor, NJ
2003 Residency in Visual Arts, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
Purchase Award, Mercer County Artists Exhibit, Mercer Co Community College, West Windsor, NJ
2001-2003 MFA Merit Scholarship, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1996 New Jersey Network Grant, awarded for Interdisciplinary Art and Music Program, Newark, NJ
Bibliography
2018 Purcell, Janet, “Transcendence” The Times of Trenton, April 2018
2014 Dube, Ilene,“Artist Jean Burdick With Work to Heal” US 1 News, September 2014
“Bucks County Artist Shows in Princeton” Bucks County Herald, September 2014
“Chapin Gallery Features Jean Burdick” Town Topics, August 2014
2013 Otterbein, Holly, “First Friday Focus” Citypaper, December 2013
2011 Dube, Ilene, “Needed: Lasers, Scalpels-and 600 Pieces of Art” US 1 News, November 2011
Purcell,Janet, “Quintet of Artists Share Work in ‘5 x ‘5," The Times, October 2011
2010 Miller, Lynn, “The Flux of the Natural World” West Windsor & Plainsboro News, January 2010
2008 "'Artists are in their Elements' at Trenton’s Gallery 125," The Times, March 2008
2007 Dube, Ilene, “Layers of Meaning” The Princeton Packet, November 2007
“Navigating Terrains Finds Way to Lawrence” The Times, November 2007
"Embarrassment of Riches" The Princeton Packet, November 2007
2006 Purcell, Janet,“Traces Pairs Two Artists With a Connection” The Times, December 2006
2005 “Trenton City Museum: “TAWA Invitational II” The Bucks County Courier Times, August 2005
“TAWA Exhibit Brings Cutting Edge to Ellarslie” The Times, June 2005
2004 Bischoff, Dan, “Printmakers Chart a Land of New Myths” The Newark Star Ledger, June 2004
Rivera, F.R, “At Mercer, an Artful Shell Game” U.S.1, April 2004
Purcell, Janet “TAWA Works are Diverse and Smartly Displayed” The Times, July 2004
Collections
Penn State Health Medical Center, Hamden, PA
Gan and Lee, Somerville, NJ
Penn Medicne, Radnor, PA
Allergan, Inc, Bridgewater, NJ
AtlantiCare/Fox Chase Cancer Care Institute, Cape May, NJ
AtlantiCare Mainland Campus, Galloway, NJ
Capital Health Medical Center, Hopewell, NJ
Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ
Mercer County Cultural and Historical Society, Trenton, NJ
Mercy Health System, Norristown, PA
Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Penn Medicine at Cherry Hill, Cherry Hill, NJ
Philadelphia Energy Solutions, Philadelphia, PA
Summit Medical Group MD Anderson Cancer Center, Florham Park, NJ
ShadowTrader Technologies, Haverford, PA
Temple Israel, Croton on Hudson, NY
Penn Medicine at Plainsboro, Plainsboro, NJ
Yeshiva University, New York, NY
Represented in Private Collections
Affiliation
National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY
Cerulean Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Frontline Arts, Somerville, NJ
Starwheel Printers, Philadelphia, PA
James A. Michener Art Museum, Bucks County Database, Doylestown, PA
Exhibitions
Solo
2022 Cerulean Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2021 Cerulean Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2020 Woodloch Lodge, Hawley, PA
2015 Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ
Pennswood Gallery, Newtown, PA
Rittenhouse 1715 Boutique Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Princeton Medical Arts Pavillion, Plainsboro, NJ
The Chapin School, Princeton, NJ
2013, 2012, 2010 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2011 St Asaph Gallery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
2010 The Silva Gallery of Art, The Pennington School, Pennington, NJ
2007 Marguerite & James Hutchins Gallery, The Lawrenceville School Lawrenceville, NJ
2006 Janssen Pharmaceutical/Division of Johnson & Johnson, Titusville, NJ
Life Gallery, E. Williamsburg, NY
2005 Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Trenton, NJ
Group
2022
Raking Light, The Yard, Philadelphia, PA
Out of the Whirlwind; Fire, Air, Water, Earth.
Montgomery County Community College, Ambler, PA
2021
Homecoming, Frontline Arts, Somerville, NJ
2020
Abington Art Center, Abington, PA
2019 76th Annual Painting Show, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
Catalyze, Cambridge Innovation Center, Philadelphia, PA
Art of the State, State Museum of PA, Harrisburg, PA
Beyond Mark-Making, ArtWorks, Trenton, NJ
New Now II, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2019-2016 A Celebration of Art and Life, Perelman Center, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Winter Juried Show, Third Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Juror: Luella Tripp
Annual Print Exhibition, Artworks, Trenton, NJ
2017 Ellarslie Open, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
Starwheel Printers, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
11th Annual Exhibition, Goggleworks, Reading, PA (catalogue)
Annual Print Exhibit, Print Center of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ
Tapestry, 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Hope for the Holidays, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
2016 Inspired by Nature, Summit Medical Group, Berkeley Heights, NJ
Different Paths, 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
215/610 Contemporary Juried Exhibition, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA
2015 Impressions : The Art of the Print, The Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ Invitational
Intersection, 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Annual Juried Exhibition, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
5, Five Artists, Five Visions, Silva Gallery of Art, Pennington, NJ
2013 Art Connections 9, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
PaperWorks, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ Invitational
2012 Fresh Impressions, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Snowflake Salon Invitational, Bridge Club, Phlladelphia, PA
Trenton Makes, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Square Foot Art Basel Miami, Projects Gallery, Miami, FL
Water, Water Anywhere, Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
5 x 5, West Windsor Art Council, Princeton Junction , NJ
2010 Reality and Artifice, New Jersey Arts Annual, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ (catalogue)
Art on Paper, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
2009 New Jersey Green, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Morristown, NJ
A Reference for Water, Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ
2008 Annual Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Inside and Out: Selections from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Visual Artist Fellows, Maloney Art Gallery, The College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ (catalogue)
2007 Pink at Perkins, The Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ Invitational
Annual Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Works on Paper, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
National Printmaking, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
2006 National Print Exhibition, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ
Phillips’ Mill 77th Annual Exhibition, New Hope, PA
2005 Annual Juried Show, Abington Art Center, Abington, PA
Faculty Show: Mercer County Community College, Artworks Gallery Trenton, NJ
2004 Critical Mass: A Mid Atlantic Exhibition, The 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
American Impressions, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ (catalogue)
Annual Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
TAWA at 25 Exhibition, The Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ (catalogue)
2003 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Rosenwald-Wolf Galleries, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Annual Juried Exhibition, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
Juried Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
2002 NorthEast Prints 2002, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ (catalogue)
Annual Print Exhibit, Print Center of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ
60th Annual Juried Painting Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA
2001 Eyes on Trenton, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Works in Progress, Hamilton Hall Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2000 Preserving the Garden: Saving New Jersey Landscape, The Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ and the Nabisco Corporate Gallery, East Hanover, NJ
